Analysis of Golden Moonrose
William Stanley Braithwaite 1878 (Boston) – 1962
When your eyes gaze seaward
Piercing through the dim
Slow descending nightfall,
On the outer rim
Where the deep blue silence
Touches sky and sea,
Hast thou seen the golden
Moon, rise silently?
Seen the great battalions
Of the stars grow pale ---
Melting in the magic
Of her silver veil?
I have seen the wonder,
I have felt the balm
Of the golden moonrise
Turn to silver calm.
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XDXD XEBE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111110 10101 10101 10101 101110 10101 111010 11100 101010 10111 100010 10101 111010 11101 10101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 382 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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