Analysis of A Child's First Impression Of A Star.
She had been told that God made all the stars
That twinkled up in heaven, and now she stood
Watching the coming of the twilight on,
As if it were a new and perfect world,
And this were its first eve. How beautiful
Must be the work of nature to a child
In its first fresh impression! Laura stood
By the low window, with the silken lash
Of her soft eye upraised, and her sweet mouth
Half parted with the new and strange delight
Of beauty that she could not comprehend,
And had not seen before. The purple folds
Of the low sunset clouds, and the blue sky
That look'd so still and delicate above,
Fill'd her young heart with gladness, and the eve
Stole on with its deep shadows, and she still
Stood looking at the west with that half smile,
As if a pleasant thought were at her heart.
Presently, in the edge of the last tint
Of sunset, where the blue was melted in
To the faint golden mellowness, a star
Stood suddenly. A laugh of wild delight
Burst from her lips, and putting up her hands,
Her simple thought broke forth expressively -
"Father! dear Father! God has made a star!"
Scheme | ABCDEFBGHIJKLMNOPQRSTIUET |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111101 11010100111 100101011 1110010011 0101111100 1101110101 0111010101 1011010101 101110011 1101010101 110111101 0111010101 101110011 1111010001 101111001 111111011 1101011111 1101010101 1000011011 111011100 10110101 1100011101 1101010101 0101111 1011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,054 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 843 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 205 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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