Analysis of A Birthday Gift



No gift I bring but worship, and the love
Which all must bear to lovely souls and pure,
Those lights, that, when all else is dark, endure;
Stars in the night, to lift our eyes above;

To lift our eyes and hearts, and make us move
Less doubtful, though our journey be obscure,
Less fearful of its ending, being sure
That they watch over us, where'er we rove.

And though my gift itself have little worth,
Yet worth it gains from her to whom `tis given,
As a weak flower gets colour from the sun.
Or rather, as when angels walk the earth,
All things they look on take the look of heaven -
For of those blessed angels thou art one.


Scheme ABBA XBBX CDDCDD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110001 1111110101 1111111101 10011110101 11101010111 11011010101 1101110101 1111011011 0111011101 11111011110 1011011101 1101110101 11111101110 111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 621
Words 124
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 161
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Fuller Murray

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