Analysis of Even When She Walks
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Even when she walks she seems to dance!
Her garments writhe and glisten like long snakes
obedient to the rhythm of the wands
by which a fakir wakens them to grace.
Like both the desert and the desert sky
insensible to human suffering,
and like the ocean’s endless labyrinth
she shows her body with indifference.
Precious minerals are her polished eyes,
and in her strange symbolic nature
angel and sphinx unite,
where diamonds, gold, and steel dissolve into one light,
shining forever, useless as a star,
the sterile woman’s icy majesty.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXAAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111111 0101010111 01001010101 11011111 1101000101 0100110100 010101010 1101010100 1010010101 000101010 10011 110101010111 1001010101 010110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 544 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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