Analysis of Moonlit Mountains
I stand here looking at the setting sun
That's just about to drop from out of sight
Yet soon to recognize, when it is done,
The always rising of the moon at night.
To see it creep above the curving east
And feel refreshing chill of dusk and slow
The landscape underneath completely fleeced
With silver light that makes the shadows grow.
And it's a sight to see the aspen trees
Take on themselves, each leaf, the evening strange;
With flooding darkness all about their knees,
The mountains over Colorado change.
Far up above the spruce cross tundra grass
See moonlight silhouetting Eagle Pass.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1111010101 1101111111 111101111 011010111 1111010101 0101011101 01010101 110111011 0101110101 1101110101 1101010111 010100101 1101011101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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