My Star

Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)



All, that I know
 Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
 (Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
 Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
 They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
  They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
  Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Scheme ABABCDCDDCEFE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 429
Words 92
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

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