Analysis of The Star
Douglas Ainslie 1865 – 1948
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 |
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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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