Analysis of God Speaks
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I made a heaven for you filled with stars,
Each star a song
Meant to give happy music to your ear,
Day and night long.
But in your workshop you are closed away
From the fair sky,
Deafened by noise until you cannot hear
My stars that sigh.
And when night comes your sleepy eyes are blind
To heavens blue;
That was a foolish toy, my dearest dear,
I made for you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 1101 1111010111 1011 101111101 1011 111011101 1111 0111110111 1101 1101011101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 368 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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