Analysis of Correspondences
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Nature is a temple whose living colonnades
Breathe forth a mystic speech in fitful sighs;
Man wanders among symbols in those glades
Where all things watch him with familiar eyes.
Like dwindling echoes gathered far away
Into a deep and thronging unison
Huge as the night or as the light of day,
All scents and sounds and colors meet as one.
Perfumes there are as sweet as the oboe's sound,
Green as the prairies, fresh as a child's caress,
- And there are others, rich, corrupt, profound
And of an infinite pervasiveness,
Like myrrh, or musk, or amber, the excite
The ecstasies of sense, the soul's delight.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101101 1101010101 1100110011 1111110101 11001010101 010101100 1101110111 1101010111 0111111011 11010110101 0111010101 0111000100 1111110001 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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