Hesper
Henry Van Dyke 1852 (Germantown, Pennsylvania) – 1933 (Princeton, New Jersey)
Her eyes are like the evening air,
Her voice is like a rose,
Her lips are like a lovely song,
That ripples as it flows,
And she herself is sweeter than
The sweetest thing she knows.
A slender, haunting, twilight form
Of wonder and surprise,
She seemed a fairy or a child,
Till, deep within her eyes,
I saw the homeward-leading star
Of womanhood arise.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Scheme | XAXAXA XBXBXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 349 |
Words | 67 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
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