Analysis of As Winds That Blow Against A Star
Joyce Kilmer 1886 (New Brunswick) – 1918 (Seringes-et-Nesles)
Now by what whim of wanton chance
Do radiant eyes know sombre days?
And feet that shod in light should dance
Walk weary and laborious ways?
But rays from Heaven, white and whole,
May penetrate the gloom of earth;
And tears but nourish, in your soul,
The glory of celestial mirth.
The darts of toil and sorrow, sent
Against your peaceful beauty, are
As foolish and as impotent
As winds that blow against a star.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111101 11001111 01110111 110001001 11110101 1100111 01110011 01010101 01110101 01110101 11001100 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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