Analysis of The Ransom
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Man, with which to pay his ransom,
has two fields of deep rich earth,
which he must dig and bring to birth,
with the iron blade of reason.
To obtain the smallest rose,
to garner a few ears of wheat,
he must wet them without cease,
with briny tears from his grey brow.
One is Art: Love is the other.
- To render his propitiation,
on the day of conflagration,
when the last strict reckoning’s here,
full of crops’ and flowers’ displays
he will have to show his barns,
with those colours and those forms
that gain the Angels’ praise.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110 1111111 11110111 10101110 1010101 11001111 1111011 1111111 11111010 11011 1011010 101111 11101001 1111111 111011 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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