Analysis of Satan Speaks
C.S. Lewis 1898 (Belfast) – 1963 (Oxford)
I am Nature, the Mighty Mother,
I am the law: ye have none other.
I am the flower and the dewdrop fresh,
I am the lust in your itching flesh.
I am the battle’s filth and strain,
I am the widow’s empty pain.
I am the sea to smother your breath,
I am the bomb, the falling death.
I am the fact and the crushing reason
To thwart your fantasy’s new-born treason.
I am the spider making her net,
I am the beast with jaws blood-wet.
I am a wolf that follows the sun
And I will catch him ere day be done.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF EE |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 111001010 110111110 110100011 110101101 11010101 11010101 110111011 11010101 1101001010 11111110 110101001 11011111 110111001 011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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