Analysis of Baudelaire

Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)



I think I understand you, Baudelaire,
With all your strangeness and perverted ways,
You whose fierce hatred of dull working days
Led you to seek your macabre visions there
Where shrouded night came creeping to ensnare
Your phantomfevered brain, with subtle maze
Of decomposéd loves, remorse, dismays,
And all the gnawing of a world's despair.
Within my soul you've set your blackest flag
And made my disillusioned heart your tomb ;
My mind which once was young and virginal
Is now a swamp, a spleenfilled pregnant womb
Of things abominable, things androgynal,
Flowers of Dissolution, Fleurs du Mal.


Scheme ABBAABBACDEDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 1110111 1111000101 1111011101 11111010101 1101110101 1111101 11110101 0101010101 0111111101 011010111 1111110100 110101101 110100011 101010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 594
Words 99
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 484
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 16, 2023

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Harry Crosby

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