Analysis of The Star



You move upon the earth as one
     New lit from off the car
That God Apollo guides, the Sun—
     And in your hand, a Star;
For in your perfect form unite
     Divided hemispheres,
The joy of day, the bliss of night—
     Sun raptures, moonlit tears.
These words of love, I tell them o’er,
     As monk his rosary—
We know the visions we adore
     Are bright Reality.


Scheme ABABCDCDBEFE
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 111101 11010101 001101 1010111 0101 01110111 1111 11111111 111100 11010101 1110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 366
Words 66
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 260
Words per stanza (avg) 66
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Douglas Ainslie

Douglas Ainslie, born Ainslie Grant Duff was a Scottish poet, translator, critic and diplomat. He was born in Paris, France, and educated at Eton College and at Balliol and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. A contributor to the Yellow Book, he met and befriended Oscar Wilde at age twenty-one while an undergraduate at Oxford. more…

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