Analysis of The Shining Host
Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead)
In vain you try
To smother my song:
A million children
In chorus sing it
Beneath the sun!
In vain you try
To break my verse
Of affliction:
The children sing it
Under God!
| Scheme | Axbcb Axbcx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 0111 11011 01010 01011 0101 0111 1111 1010 01011 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 170 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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