Analysis of Song of the Moon
Priscilla Jane Thompson 1871 ( Rossmoyne, Ohio.) – 1942 ( Rossmoyne, Ohio.)
Oh, a hidden power is in my breast,
A power that none can fathom;
I call the tides from seas of rest,
They rise, they fall, at my behest;
And many a tardy fisher’s boat,
I’ve torn apart and set afloat,
From out their raging chasm.
For I’m an enchantress, old and grave;
Concealed I rule the weather;
Oft set I, the lover’s heart a blaze,
With hidden power of my fulgent rays,
Or seek I the souls of dying men,
And call the sea-tides from the fen,
And drift them out together.
I call the rain from the mountain’s peak,
And sound the mighty thunder;
When I wax and wane from week to week,
The heavens stir, while vain men seek,
To solve the myst’ries that I hold,
But a bounded portion I unfold,
So nations pass and wonder.
Yea, my hidden strength no man may know;
Nor myst’ries be expounded;
I’ll cause the tidal waves to flow,
And I shall wane, and larger grow,
Yet while man rack his shallow brain,
The secrets with me still remain,
He seeks in vain, confounded.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101011 01011110 11011111 11111101 010010101 11010101 1111010 1111101 0111010 111010101 110101111 111011101 01011101 0111010 110110101 0101010 111011111 01011111 1101111 101010101 1101010 111011111 111010 11010111 01110101 11111101 01011101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,015 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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