Analysis of The Morning Star
George William Russell 1867 (Lurgan) – 1935 (Bournemouth)
IN the black pool of the midnight Lu has slung the morning star,
And its foam in rippling silver whitens into day afar
Falling on the mountain rampart piled with pearl above our glen,
Only you and I, beloved, moving in the fields of men.
In the dark tarn of my spirit, love, the morning star, is lit;
And its halo, ever brightening, lightens into dawn in it.
Love, a pearl-grey dawn in darkness, breathing peace without desire;
But I fain would shun the burning terrors of the mid-day fire.
Through the faint and tender airs of twilight star on star may gaze,
But the eyes of light are blinded in the white flame of the days,
From the heat that melts together oft a rarer essence slips,
And our hearts may still be parted in the meeting of the lips.
What a darkness would I gaze on when the day had passed the west,
If my eyes were dazed and blinded by the whiteness of a breast?
Never through the diamond darkness could I hope to see afar
Where beyond the pearly rampart burned the purer evening star.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 00111011110101 011010010101101 101010111101101 10101011000111 001111101010111 0110101001001101 1011101010101010 1111101010101110 10101011111111 101111100011101 101110101010101 0101111100010101 101011111011101 111010101010101 101010101111101 10101011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,038 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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