Analysis of Sorrows of the Moon
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Tonight the moon dreams in a deeper languidness,
And, like a beauty on her cushions, lies at rest;
While drifting off to sleep, a tentative caress
Seeks, with a gentle hand, the contour of her breast;
As on a crest above her silken avalanche,
Dying, she yields herself to an unending swoon,
And sees a pallid vision everywhere she’d glance,
In the azure sky where blossoms have been strewn.
When sometime, in her weariness, upon her sphere
She might permit herself to sheda furtive tear,
A poet of great piety, a foe of sleep,
Catches in the hollow of his hand that tear,
An opal fragment, iridescent as a star;
Within his heart, far from the sun, it’s buried deep.
Scheme | ABAB XCAC XDE DXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100101 010101010111 110111010001 11010101101 11010101010 101101110101 01010101011 00101110111 11001000101 11010111101 010111000111 10001011111 11010010101 011111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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