Analysis of Stars
(For the Rev. James J. Daly, S. J.)
Bright stars, yellow stars, flashing through the air,
Are you errant strands of Lady Mary's hair?
As she slits the cloudy veil and bends down through,
Do you fall across her cheeks and over heaven too?
Gay stars, little stars, you are little eyes,
Eyes of baby angels playing in the skies.
Now and then a winged child turns his merry face
Down toward the spinning world -- what a funny place!
Jesus Christ came from the Cross (Christ receive my soul!)
In each perfect hand and foot there was a bloody hole.
Four great iron spikes there were, red and never dry,
Michael plucked them from the Cross and set them in the sky.
Christ's Troop, Mary's Guard, God's own men,
Draw your swords and strike at Hell and strike again.
Every steel-born spark that flies where God's battles are,
Flashes past the face of God, and is a star.
Scheme | X AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111011 1110110101 11101110101 11101010111 1110101010101 1110111101 11101010001 10101111101 101010110101 101110110111 0101101110101 111011010101 1011101011001 11101111 11101110101 1001111111101 10101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 856 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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