Analysis of Moonlight North and South
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Love, we have heard together
The North Sea sing his tune,
And felt the wind's wild feather
Brush past our cheeks at noon,
And seen the cloudy weather
Made wondrous with the moon.
Where loveliness is rarest,
`Tis also prized the most:
The moonlight shone her fairest
Along that level coast
Where sands and dunes the barest,
Of beauty seldom boast,
Far from that bleak and rude land
An exile I remain
Fixed in a fair and good land,
A valley and a plain
Rich in fat fields and woodland,
And watered well with rain.
Last night the full moon's splendour
Shone down on Taunton Dene,
And pasture fresh and tender,
And coppice dusky green,
The heavenly light did render
In one enchanted scene,
One fair unearthly vision.
Yet soon mine eyes were cloyed,
And found those fields Elysian
Too rich to be enjoyed.
Or was it our division
Made all my pleasure void?
Across the window glasses
The curtain then I drew,
And, as a sea-bird passes,
In sleep my spirit flew
To grey and windswept grasses
And moonlit sands--and you.
Scheme | ABABAB CDXDCD EFEFEF ABAGAG HCBIHI JKJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 011111 0101110 1110111 0101010 110101 11110 110101 011010 011101 1101010 110101 1111011 11101 1001011 010001 101101 010111 110111 111101 0101010 0111 01001110 010101 1101010 111101 01111 111101 11110010 111101 0101010 010111 0101110 011101 110110 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 982 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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