Analysis of The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
The force that drives the water through the rocks
Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams
Turns mine to wax.
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.
The hand that whirls the water in the pool
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind
Hauls my shroud sail.
And I am dumb to tell the hanging man
How of my clay is made the hangman's lime.
The lips of time leech to the fountain head;
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores.
And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.
And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.
| Scheme | AXAXA XXXXX XBXXX XXXBX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110111010 1111110111 11010 0111110101 11111011010 0111010101 1111110101 1111 0111111011 1101010111 0111010001 101110101 1111 0111110101 111111011 0111110101 1101010101 1101 0111110101 1111010101 0111110101 1111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 868 |
| Words | 177 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
Remarkably, Dylan was only 20-years old when her wrote this. There is a deep Spiritual element to this one: what is this Force Dylan's writes of? Is it what the Chinese call Qi? Is it God? Is it what the quantum physicists call The Zero Point Field? It may take a number of reads, but you may start to see that this is written Literally.
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Written on 1934
Submitted by George9@99 on September 13, 2021
Modified on May 01, 2023
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