Analysis of Solar
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
Suspended lion face
Spilling at the centre
Of an unfurnished sky
How still you stand,
And how unaided
Single stalkless flower
You pour unrecompensed.
The eye sees you
Simplified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of your
Gold.
Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever.
| Scheme | ABXCXBC XXXXXXX XADDXCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101 101010 1111 1111 01010 10110 111 0111 10110 011100 11111 01000010 1101011 1 1101 101 101100 10110 1001110 1101 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 414 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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