Analysis of Sargent's Portrait of Edwin Booth
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
That face which no man ever saw
And from his memory banished quite,
With eyes in which are Hamlet's awe
And Cardinal Richelieu's subtle light,
Looks from this frame. A master's hand
Has set the master player here,
In the fair temple that he planned
Not for himself. To us most dear
This image of him! "It was thus
He looked; such pallor touched his cheek;
With that same grace he greeted us--
Nay, 't is the man, could it but speak!"
Sad words that shall be said some day--
Far fall the day! O cruel Time,
Whose breath sweeps mortal things away,
Spare long this image of his prime,
That others standing in the place
Where, save as ghosts, we come no more,
May know what sweet majestic face
The gentle Prince of Players wore!
Scheme | ABCBDEDFGHGHIJIJKLKL |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111101 011100101 1101111 01001101 11110101 11010101 00110111 11011111 11011111 1111111 11111101 111011111 11111111 11011101 11110101 11110111 11010001 11111111 11110101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 732 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 560 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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