Analysis of Post-Impressionism
Bert Leston Taylor 1866 – 1921
I cannot tell you how I love
The canvases of Mr. Dove,
Which Saturday I went to see
In Mr. Thurber's gallery.
At first you fancy they are built
As patterns for a crazy quilt,
But soon you see that they express
An ambient simultaneousness.
This thing which you would almost bet
Portrays a Spanish omelette,
Depicts instead, with wondrous skill,
A horse and cart upon a hill.
Now, Mr. Dove has too much art
To show the horse or show the cart;
Instead, he paints the creak and strain,
Get it? No pike is half as plain.
This thing which would appear to show
A fancy vest scenario,
Is really quite another thing,
A flock of pigeons on the wing.
But Mr. Dove is much too keen
To let a single bird be seen;
To show the pigeons would not do
And so he simply paints the coo.
It's all as simple as can be;
He paints the things you cannot see,
Just as composers please the ear
With "programme" things you cannot hear.
Dove is the cleverest of chaps;
And, gazing at his rhythmic maps,
I wondered (and I'm wondering yet)
Whether he did them on a bet.
Scheme | AABB CCXB DCEE FFGG HHII JJKK BBLL MMDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011111 01001101 11001111 0101100 11110111 11010101 11111101 11001 1111111 010101 01011101 01010101 11011111 11011101 01110101 11111111 11110111 01010100 11010101 01110101 11011111 11010111 11010111 01110101 11110111 11011101 11010101 1111101 110111 01011101 110011001 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,140 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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