Analysis of Ave Maria
High in the mountains,
Illuminated by the sunlight
Where the shades of twilight
Were heralding the night...
There was a most beautiful
Shepherdess and a handsome young villager,
He dearly loved her.
Yet, on a sunny spring day,
He left the village.
She loudly cried to the Earth,
"I only wish your eyes could see into my heart."
She never knew that he loved her,
Or that he would ever return.
So alone and afraid, way out in the mountains
Far beyond the starlights she loved him,
That she went down to the Monastery,
To confess to the Archimandrite about
Her wishes to be a nun -
After she became Sister Maria,
Torn between her love for him
And the love for God
She has to fend for herself to be a
Master of her own destiny.
Her faith in love was not helping, nor healing
Her Wounds -
Yet, some forces taught her how to master the soul.
She started to discover her true inner calling,
Sometimes she was frightened yet ready to learn.
But one day the young handsome villager,
Came back to see her, to tell her about his love,
And searching the mountains
From sunrise to sunset until
He heard her melodious voice,
And the Abbey's dulcet bell ringing.
Oh, if you listened to the song of that beauty’s rare being,
This is the prayer of the day she was singing,
Ave Maria,
Ave Maria!
Copyrights Neli Fatu de Valahia
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Metre | 10010 0100101 10111 010001 1101100 100101100 11010 1101011 11010 1101101 110111110111 11011110 11111001 101001110010 10101111 111110100 10110101 0101101 1010110010 1010111 00111 1111101110 10101100 01011110110 01 111010111001 1101010011010 01111011011 1110110100 111101100111 010010 111101 11001001 001010110 11110101111110 11011011110 1010 1010 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,273 |
Words | 245 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 38, 1 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 514 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on March 15, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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