Analysis of The Golden Gourd
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
What chance have snakes upon an asphalt road
When giant limousines go gliding by,
Of courtesans resolved to gratify
The lust of lovers seeking new abode?
I do not envy the unfriended toad
Nor airships falling from a marble sky
Nor mothers listening to their children cry
What chance have blades of grass on being mowed?
And yet the unmolested Sun rolls on
A ship of gold among the silver clouds
Or else a lady wrapped in silver shrouds
to mock the crescent moon's pale skeleton.
Which strengthens me to live with heart assured
For I have drunken from the golden gourd.
Scheme | ABBAABBA XCCX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101111 110101101 1101110 0111010101 11110011 111010101 11010011101 1111111101 010010111 0111010101 1101010101 1101011100 1101111101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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