Analysis of The Disciple
Oscar Wilde 1854 (Dublin) – 1900 (Paris)
When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of
sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping
through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it
comfort.
And when they saw that the pool had changed from a cup of sweet
waters into a cup of salt tears, they loosened the green tresses of
their hair and cried to the pool and said, 'We do not wonder that
you should mourn in this manner for Narcissus, so beautiful was
he.'
'But was Narcissus beautiful?' said the pool.
'Who should know that better than you?' answered the Oreads. 'Us
did he ever pass by, but you he sought for, and would lie on your
banks and look down at you, and in the mirror of your waters he
would mirror his own beauty.'
And the pool answered, 'But I loved Narcissus because, as he lay on
my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw
ever my own beauty mirrored.'
Scheme | AXXX XAXXB X XXBB XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101111011011 1100101111001110 1011111101011 10 01111011110111 10010111111001101 110110101111101 1110110101011001 1 11010100101 1111101110011 1110111111101111 1011110001011101 1101110 00110111010011111 1101111001011111 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 892 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 1, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on March 03, 2016
Modified on May 03, 2023
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