Analysis of Moonrise

Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)



Will you glimmer on the sea?
Will you fling your spear-head
On the shore?
What note shall we pitch?

We have a song,        
On the bank we share our arrows—
The loosed string tells our note:

O flight,
Bring her swiftly to our song.
She is great,        
We measure her by the pine-trees.


Scheme XXXX AXX XAXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 111111 101 11111 1101 101111010 0111101 11 10101101 111 11001011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 299
Words 63
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name H. D. Hilda was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1886, and grew up just outside Philadelphia in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, and attended Bryn Mawr College. She moved to London in 1911, where she played a central role within the then-emerging Imagist movement. Young and charismatic, she was championed by the modernist poet Ezra Pound, who was instrumental in building her career. From 1916–17, she acted as the literary editor of the Egoist journal, while her poetry appeared in the English Review and the Transatlantic Review.  more…

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