Analysis of Cold-Blooded Creatures
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
Man, the egregious egoist
(In mystery the twig is bent)
Imagines, by some mental twist,
That he alone is sentient
Of the intolerable load
That on all living creatures lies,
Nor stoops to pity in the toad
The speechless sorrow of his eyes.
He asks no questions of the snake,
Nor plumbs the phosphorescent gloom
Where lidless fishes, broad awake,
Swim staring at a nightmare doom.
Scheme | AAAA ABAB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 100101 01000111 01011101 110111 10010001 11110101 11110001 01010111 11110101 11011 1110101 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 375 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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