Analysis of A Fallen Star
I thought, once, when I walked at night
beneath the shadows of moonlight mocked,
When the air stood still and the cold mist
of my breath built clouds that fell into nothingness
invisible,
When the forest as a tall, hushed fortress stood
And watched with me, with skyward eyes,
And saw the far-flung, cold diamond dancing
of flames, of stars in the infinite heavens . . .
I thought, once, I glimpsed a fleeting light
Far-off, through the boughs of the tree-sentinels
that saw me safe along an unseen road,
a shimmering spark in the dark of night
that beckoned me, that called me thence.
Had one star fallen for me alone?
Or had I seen
the flames of your eyes calling me from far home?
One star had fallen there -
for love, for love,
it had been you.
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Metre | 11111111 0101111 101110011 111111101100 0100 10101011101 01111101 0101111010 11110010010 111110101 11101101100 1111011011 0100100111 11011111 111101101 1111 01111101111 111101 1111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 5, 1, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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