Analysis of Art
Alfred Noyes 1880 (Wolverhampton) – 1958 (Isle of Wight)
Yes! Beauty still rebels!
Our dreams like clouds disperse:
She dwells
In agate, marble, verse.
No false constraint be thine!
But, for right walking, choose
The fine,
The strict cothurnus, Muse.
Vainly ye seek to escape
The toil! The yielding phrase
Ye shape
Is clay, not chrysoprase.
And all in vain ye scorn
That seeming ease which ne’er
Was born
Of aught but love and care.
Take up the sculptor’s tool!
Recall the gods that die
To rule
In Parian o’er the sky.
Poet, let passion sleep
Till with the cosmic rhyme
You keep
Eternal tone and time,
By rule of hour and flower,
By strength of stern restraint
And power
To fail and not to faint.
The task is hard to learn
While all the songs of Spring
Return
Along the blood and sing.
Yet hear—from her deep skies,
How Art, for all your pain,
Still cries
Ye must be born again!
Reject the wreath of rose,
Take up the crown of thorn
That shows
To-night a child is born.
The far immortal face
In chosen onyx fine
Enchase,
Delicate line by line.
Strive with Carrara, fight
With Parian, till there steal
To light
Apollo’s pure profile.
Set the great lucid form
Free from its marble tomb
To storm
The heights of death and doom.
Take up the sculptor’s tool!
Recall the gods that die
To rule
In Parian o’er the sky.
Scheme | abxb cdcd exea fxfx GHGH ijij klkl mnmn oxox pfpf xcac qxqx rsrs GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (79%) |
Metre | 110110 1011101 11 010101 110111 111101 01 0111 1011101 010101 11 1111 010111 110111 11 111101 110101 10111 11 01101 101101 110101 11 010101 11110010 111101 010 110111 011111 110111 01 010101 111011 111111 11 111101 010111 110111 11 110111 010101 010101 1 100111 11101 11111 11 111 101101 111101 11 011101 110101 10111 11 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,222 |
Words | 237 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 56 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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