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.
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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
Modified on April 12, 2023
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