Analysis of Moon Bathers
John Freeman 1880 – 1929
Falls from her heaven the Moon, and stars sink
burning
Into the sea where blackness rims the sea,
Silently quenched. Faint light that the waves hold
Is only light remaining; yet still gleam
The sands where those now-sleeping young moon-bathers
Came dripping out of the sea and from their arms
Shook flakes of light, dancing on the foamy edge
Of quiet waves. They were all things of light
Tossed from the sea to dance under the Moon —
Her nuns, dancing within her dying round,
Clear limbs and breasts silvered with Moon and waves
And quick with windlike mood and body's joy,
Withdrawn from alien vows, by wave and wind
Lightly absolved and lightly all forgetting.
An hour ago they left. Remains the gleam
Of their late motion on the salt sea-meadow,
As loveliest hues linger when the sun's gone
And float in the heavens and die in reedy pools —
So slowly, who shall say when light is gone?
Scheme | XAXXBXXXXXXXXXA BXCXC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 1101001011 10 0101110101 1001111011 1101010111 01111101110 11011010111 11111010101 1101101111 1101111001 0110010101 110111101 011110101 01110011101 10010101010 11001110101 1111010111 111101011 010010010101 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 882 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 354 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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