Analysis of Moonset
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
Idles the night wind through the dreaming firs,
That waking murmur low,
As some lost melody returning stirs
The love of long ago;
And through the far, cool distance, zephyr fanned.
The moon is sinking into shadow-land.
The troubled night-bird, calling plaintively,
Wanders on restless wing;
The cedars, chanting vespers to the sea,
Await its answering,
That comes in wash of waves along the strand,
The while the moon slips into shadow-land.
O! soft responsive voices of the night
I join your minstrelsy,
And call across the fading silver light
As something calls to me;
I may not all your meaning understand,
But I have touched your soul in shadow-land.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDECC FAFDCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110101 110101 1111000101 011101 0101110101 011100111 010111010 101101 010101101 011100 1101110101 010110111 1101010101 1111 0101010101 110111 111111001 111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 662 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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