Lew Sarrett's Many Many Moons
Louis Untermeyer'sThese Times---- and Other PoetsPoems of Heinrich Heine (Translated)The New Era in American Poetry
Margaret Widdemer'sThe Old Road to ParadiseFactories and Other Poems
About this text
Lew Sarrett's Many Many Moons is in the public domain. This text is taken from Mountain Interval, Project Gutenberg ebook #29345; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Robert Frost, Lew Sarrett's Many Many Moons, in Mountain Interval (1916), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #29345, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/frost-mountain-interval/lew-sarrett-s-many-many-moons.html, id L02671.
Form and metre
Lew Sarrett's Many Many Moons is 8 lines in 2 verse paragraphs. It is unrhymed, as far as the pronouncing dictionary can tell. The metre is trochaic trimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 89% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 6.6 syllables. 4 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 88% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in trochaic trimeter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against trochaic trimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Louis Untermeyer's | 5 | /˘/˘· |
| These Times | 2 | ·· |
| ---- and Other Poets | 5 | ·/˘/˘ |
| Poems of Heinrich Heine (Translated) | 9 | /˘·/˘·˘/˘ |
| The New Era in American Poetry | 11 | ··/˘·˘/˘/˘˘ |
| Margaret Widdemer's | 6 | /˘˘··· |
| The Old Road to Paradise | 7 | ····/˘· |
| Factories and Other Poems | 8 | /˘˘·/˘/˘ |
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