Analysis of Earth Rune.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
I heard the Earth within me sing
As if it were a trancéd thing,
Or as if under thought's control
All things were chaunting in my soul.
I was the centre of the sphere,
And made the imaginary year,
Whose seasons four were each a mood
Like God's within His solitude.
The unborn may dream of our life
As we still dream of death, until
Its shadow falls upon our strife,
As the birth-light on the unborn will
When they emerge as from a tomb
Within the antenatal gloom.
Ah! they may guess at what we know,
May picture what their lives will be
When they into time's essence flow
And take on thought's reality,
As we may deem of death, who pass
Like shadows o'er the shining grass.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFEFGGHIHIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010111 11100111 11110101 1101011 11010101 01001001 11010101 1101110 011111101 11111101 11101101 101110111 11011101 01011 11111111 11011111 11011101 011110 11111111 11100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 662 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 524 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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