Analysis of Lover's Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is
beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day
and night; it is not of the earth.
But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and
space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust.
Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your
palpitating heart.
The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe
to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother-
dust.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110111110101111 01010110101101011 01111101 1110111010101110 10111011100101 10101011101101 10001 011101101010101 11111011010011010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 385 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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