Analysis of Chaplinesque
Harold Hart Crane 1899 (Garrettsville, Ohio) – 1932 (Gulf of Mexico)
We will make our meek adjustments,
Contented with such random consolations
As the wind deposits
In slithered and too ample pockets.
For we can still love the world, who find
A famished kitten on the step, and know
Recesses for it from the fury of the street,
Or warm torn elbow coverts.
We will sidestep, and to the final smirk
Dally the doom of that inevitable thumb
That slowly chafes its puckered index toward us,
Facing the dull squint with what innocence
And what surprise!
And yet these fine collapses are not lies
More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane;
Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise.
We can evade you, and all else but the heart:
What blame to us if the heart live on.
The game enforces smirks; but we have seen
The moon in lonely alleys make
A grail of laughter of an empty ash can,
And through all sound of gaiety and quest
Have heard a kitten in the wilderness.
Scheme | AXXX XXXA XXBXC CXCXX XXXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010 0101110010 101010 01011010 111110111 0101010101 100111010101 11111 111010101 100111010001 11011110011 1001111100 0101 0111010111 11001110101 1011001110 11011011101 111110111 0101011111 01010101 01110111011 01111101 1101000100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 876 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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