Analysis of Three Poems
Ralph Hodgson 1871 (Darlington) – 1962
I
Babylon where I go dreaming
When I weary of to-day,
Weary of a world grown gray.
II
God loves an idle rainbow,
No less than laboring seas.
III
Reason has moons, but moons not hers
Lie mirrored on her sea,
Confounding her astronomers,
But, oh, delighting me!
| Scheme | AXBB AXX ACDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 1011110 1110111 1010111 1 111101 1111001 1 10111110 110101 01000100 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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