Analysis of They Lived Enamoured of the Lovely Moon
Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904
They lived enamoured of the lovely moon,
The dawn and twilight on their gentle lake.
Then Passion marvellously born did shake
Their breast and drave them into the mid-noon.
Their lives did shrink to one desire, and soon
They rose fire-eyed to follow in the wake
Of one eternal thought,--when sudden brake
Their hearts. They died, in miserable swoon.
Of all their agony not a sound was heard.
The glory of the Earth is more than they.
She asks her lovely image of the day:
A flower grows, a million boughs are green,
And over moving ocean-waves the bird
Chases his shadow and is no more seen.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 010111101 1101111 1101101011 11111101001 11101110001 1101011101 1111010001 11110010111 0101011111 1101010101 0101010111 0101010101 101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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