Analysis of Kingsford-Smith
Winnifred Coombe Tennant 1874 (Rodborough) – 1956 (Kensington, London.)
Ask the sun; it has watched him pass-
a shadow mirrored on seas of glass;
ask the stars that he knew so well
if they beheld where a bird-man fell.
Ask the wind that has blown with him
over the edge of the oceans' rim,
far from the charted haunts of men,
to the utmost limits and back again.
Ask the clouds on the mountain height
the echoes that followed him in his flight,
the thunder that prowls the midnight sky,
if a silvered 'plane went riding by.
If the birds could talk, would they tell the fall
of a god who winged above them all?
Of an eagle man by the world's decrees,
King of the blue immensities?
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFF GGXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 01101111 10111111 11110111 10111111 100110101 11010111 101100101 10110101 0101101011 01011011 10111101 1011111101 101110111 1110110101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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