Analysis of Hesperus
Clive Staples Lewis 1898 (Clive Staples Lewis Belfast) – 1963 (Oxford)
Through the starry hollow
Of the summer night
I would follow, follow
Hesperus the bright,
To seek beyond the western wave
His garden of delight.
Hesperus the fairest
Of all gods that are,
Peace and dreams thou bearest
In thy shadowy car,
And often in my evening walks
I’ve blessed thee from afar.
Stars without number,
Dust the noon of night,
Thou the early slumber
And the still delight
Of the gentle twilit hours
Rulest in thy right.
When the pale skies shiver,
Seeing night is done,
Past the ocean-river,
Lightly thou dost run,
To look for pleasant, sleepy lands,
That never fear the sun.
Where, beyond the waters
Of the outer sea,
Thy triple crown of daughters
That guards the golden tree
Sing out across the lonely tide
A welcome home to thee.
And while the old, old dragon
For joy lifts up his head,
They bring thee forth a flagon
Of nectar foaming red,
And underneath the drowsy trees
Of poppies strew thy bed.
Ah! that I could follow
In thy footsteps bright,
Through the starry hollow
Of the summer night,
Sloping down the western ways
To find my heart’s delight!
Scheme | ABabxb xcbcxc cbcbdb cecexe dfdfxf egegxg abABxb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 10101 111010 101 11010101 110101 1010 11111 10111 011001 01001101 111101 10110 10111 101010 00101 1010110 1011 101110 10111 101010 10111 11110101 110101 101010 10101 1101110 110101 11010101 010111 0101110 111111 111101 110101 0010101 110111 111110 0111 101010 10101 1010101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,042 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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