Analysis of Drying Their Wings

Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)



What the Carpenter Said

The moon's a cottage with a door.
Some folks can see it plain.
Look, you may catch a glint of light,
A sparkle through the pane,
Showing the place is brighter still
Within, though bright without.
There, at a cosy open fire
Strange babes are grouped about.
The children of the wind and tide--
The urchins of the sky,
Drying their wings from storms and things
So they again can fly.


Scheme X XAXAXBXBXCXC
Poetic Form
Metre 101001 01010101 111111 11110111 010101 10011101 011101 110101010 111101 01010101 010101 10111101 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 411
Words 77
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 12
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 158
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Vachel Lindsay

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