Analysis of The Sunshine of Thine Eyes
George Parsons Lathrop 1851 (Honolulu) – 1898 (New York)
The sunshine of thine eyes,
(O still, celestial beam!)
Whatever it touches it fills
With the life of its lambent gleam.
The sunshine of thine eyes,
O let it fall on me!
Though I be but a mote of the air,
I could turn to gold for thee!
| Scheme | Abxb Acxc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01111 110101 1011011 1011111 01111 111111 111101101 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 228 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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