Analysis of As the Heart Hopes
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
It is a year dear one, since you afar
Went out beyond my yearning mortal sight
A wondrous year! perchance in many a star
You have sojourned, or basked within the light
Of mightier suns; it may be you have trod
The glittering pathways of the Pleiades,
And through the Milky Way's white mysteries
Have walked at will, fire-shod.
You may have gazed in the immortal eyes
Of prophets and of martyrs; talked with seers
Learned in all the lore of Paradise,
The infinite wisdom of eternal years;
To you the Sons of Morning may have sung,
The impassioned strophes of their matin hymn,
For you the choirs of the seraphim
Their harpings wild out-flung.
But still I think at eve you come to me
For old, delightsome speech of eye and lip,
Deeming our mutual converse thus to be
Fairer than archangelic comradeship;
Dearer our close communings fondly given
Than all the rainbow dreams a spirit knows,
Sweeter my gathered violets than the rose
Upon the hills of heaven.
Can any exquisite, unearthly morn,
Silverly breaking o'er a starry plain,
Give to your soul the poignant pleasure born
Of virgin moon and sunset's lustrous stain
When we together watch them ? Oh, apart
A hundred universes you may roam,
But still I knowI knowyour only home
Is here within my heart!
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Metre | 1101111101 1101110101 01010101001 111110101 11001111111 010011010 0101011100 1111101 1111000101 1100110111 10101110 01001010101 1101110111 001011111 1101101 11111 1111111111 11111101 11010010111 10111 1010111010 110110101 10110100101 0101110 1101000101 110100101 1111010101 110101101 1101011101 010100111 1111111101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,238 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 250 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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