Analysis of Man and his Makers
Muriel Stuart 1885 – 1967
1.
I am one of the wind's stories,
I am a fancy of the rain,-
A memory of the high noon's glories,
The hint the sunset had of pain.
2.
They dreamed me as they dreamed all other;
Hawthorn and I, I and the grass,
With sister shade and phantom brother
Across their slumber glide and pass.
3.
Twilight is in my blood, my being
Mingles with trees and ferns and stones;
Thunder and stars my lips are freeing,
And there is sea-rack in my bones.
4.
Those that have dreamed me shall out-wake me,
But I go hence with flowers and weeds;
I am no more to those who make me
Than other drifting fruit and seeds.
5.
And though I love them -mourn to leave them-
Sea, earth and sunset, stars and streams,
My tears, my passing do not grieve them . . .
Other dreams have they, other dreams.
Scheme | ABCBC ADEDE AFGFG AHIHI AJKJK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 1 11110110 11010101 0100101110 0101111 1 111111110 1011001 110101010 01110101 1 11011110 10110101 100111110 01111011 1 111111111 111111001 111111111 11010101 1 011111111 1101101 111101111 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 769 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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