Analysis of The Three Voices
The waves have a story to tell me,
As I lie on the lonely beach;
Chanting aloft in the pine-tops,
The wind has a lesson to teach;
But the stars sing an anthem of glory
I cannot put into speech.
The waves tell of ocean spaces,
Of hearts that are wild and brave,
Of populous city places,
Of desolate shores they lave,
Of men who sally in quest of gold
To sink in an ocean grave.
The wind is a mighty roamer;
He bids me keep me free,
Clean from the taint of the gold-lust,
Hardy and pure as he;
Cling with my love to nature,
As a child to the mother-knee.
But the stars throng out in their glory,
And they sing of the God in man;
They sing of the Mighty Master,
Of the loom his fingers span,
Where a star or a soul is a part of the whole,
And weft in the wondrous plan.
Here by the camp-fire's flicker,
Deep in my blanket curled,
I long for the peace of the pine-gloom,
When the scroll of the Lord is unfurled,
And the wind and the wave are silent,
And world is singing to world.
| Scheme | ABXBAB CDCDXD EAXAEA AFEFXF EGXGXG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
| Metre | 011010111 11110101 10010011 01101011 1011110110 1101011 01111010 1111101 11001010 1100111 111100111 1101101 0110101 111111 11011011 100111 1111110 10110101 101110110 01110101 11101010 1011101 101101101101 0100101 11011010 101101 111011011 101101101 001001110 0111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,015 |
| Words | 200 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 30 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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