Analysis of No Swan So Fine
Marianne Moore 1887 (Kirkwood) – 1972 (New York City)
"No water so still as the
dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,
with swart blind look askance
and gondoliering legs, so fine
as the chinz china one with fawn-
brown eyes and toothed gold
collar on to show whose bird it was.
Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth
candelabrum-tree of cockscomb-
tinted buttons, dahlias,
sea-urchins, and everlastings,
it perches on the branching foam
of polished sculptured
flowers--at ease and tall. The king is dead.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 11010111 111101 01111 10110111 11011 101111111 1001001 1111 10101 1100010 11010101 11010 1011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 439 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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