Analysis of Landscape
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
In order to write my chaste verses I’ll lie
like an astrologer near to the sky
and, by the bell-towers, listen in dream
to their solemn hymns on the air-stream.
Hands on chin, from my attic’s height
I’ll see the workshops of song and light,
the gutters, the belfries those masts of the city,
the vast skies that yield dreams of eternity
It is sweet to see stars being born in the blue,
through the mists, the lamps at the windows, too,
the rivers of smoke climbing the firmament,
and the moon pouring out her pale enchantment.
I’ll see the springs, summers, autumns’ glow,
and when winter brings the monotonous snow
I’ll close all my doors and shutters tight
and build palaces of faery in the night.
Then I’ll dream of blue-wet horizons,
weeping fountains of alabaster, gardens,
kisses, birdsong at morning or twilight,
all in the Idyll that is most childlike.
The mob that are beating in vain on the glass,
won’t make me raise my head as they pass.
Since I’ll be plunged deep in the thrill
of evoking the springtime through my own will,
raising the sun out of my own heart,
making sweet air from my burning thought.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEECFGGCCHHCIJJKKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111011 1101001101 0101101001 111011011 11111101 11011101 01001111010 01111110100 111111101001 1010110101 010111001 00110101010 11011011 01101001001 111110101 0110011001 111111010 1010110010 10111011 100101111 01111001101 111111111 11111001 1010011111 100111111 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,117 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 875 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 202 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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