Analysis of Repose Of Rivers
Harold Hart Crane 1899 (Garrettsville, Ohio) – 1932 (Gulf of Mexico)
The willows carried a slow sound,
A sarabande the wind mowed on the mead.
I could never remember
That seething, steady leveling of the marshes
Till age had brought me to the sea.
Flags, weeds. And remembrance of steep alcoves
Where cypresses shared the noon’s
Tyranny; they drew me into hades almost.
And mammoth turtles climbing sulphur dreams
Yielded, while sun-silt rippled them
Asunder ...
How much I would have bartered! the black gorge
And all the singular nestings in the hills
Where beavers learn stitch and tooth.
The pond I entered once and quickly fled—
I remember now its singing willow rim.
And finally, in that memory all things nurse;
After the city that I finally passed
With scalding unguents spread and smoking darts
The monsoon cut across the delta
At gulf gates ... There, beyond the dykes
I heard wind flaking sapphire, like this summer,
And willows could not hold more steady sound.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110011 01011101 1110010 110101001010 11111101 110010111 11101 10011101101 0101010101 10111101 010 1111110011 0101001001 1101101 0111010101 1010111011 010001100111 10010111001 110110101 001101010 11110101 111101001110 011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 916 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 5, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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