Analysis of The Voice Of The Man Impatient With Visions And Utopias
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
We find your soft Utopias as white
As new-cut bread, and dull as life in cells,
O, scribes who dare forget how wild we are
How human breasts adore alarum bells.
You house us in a hive of prigs and saints
Communal, frugal, clean and chaste by law.
I’d rather brood in bloody Elsinore
Or be Lear’s fool, straw-crowned amid the straw.
Promise us all our share in Agincourt
Say that our clerks shall venture scorns and death,
That future ant-hills will not be too good
For Henry Fifth, or Hotspur, or Macbeth.
Promise that through to-morrow’s spirit-war
Man’s deathless soul will hack and hew its way,
Each flaunting Caesar climbing to his fate
Scorning the utmost steps of yesterday.
Never a shallow jester any more!
Let not Jack Falstaff spill the ale in vain.
Let Touchstone set the fashions for the wise
And Ariel wreak his fancies through the rain.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIHFJKJFLML |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111010011 1111011101 1111011111 11010111 1110011101 0101010111 110101010 1111110101 1011101010 11101110101 1101111111 110111101 101111101 111110111 1101010111 1011110 1001010101 111110101 111010101 01001110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 672 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 151 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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