Analysis of Phases of the Moon
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
Once upon a time I heard
That the flying moon was a Phoenix bird;
Thus she sails through windy skies,
Thus in the willow's arms she lies;
Turn to the East or turn to the West
In many trees she makes her nest.
When she's but a pearly thread
Look among birch leaves overhead;
When she dies in yellow smoke
Look in a thunder-smitten oak;
But in May when the moon is full,
Bright as water and white as wool,
Look for her where she loves to be,
Asleep in a high magnolia tree.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1010110101 1111101 1001111 110111101 01011101 1110101 10111101 1110101 10010101 10110111 11100111 11011111 010010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 365 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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