Analysis of Allegory
Picture a beauty, shoulders rich and fine,
Letting her long hair trail into her wine.
Talons of love, the poison tooth of sin
Slip and are dulled against her granite skin.
She laughs at Death and flouts Debauchery;
Those fiends who in their heavy pleasantries
Gouge and destroy, still keep a strange regard
For majesty - her body strong and hard.
A goddess, or a sultan's regal wife
A faithful Paynim of voluptuous life
Her eyes call mortal beings to the charms
Of ready breasts, between her open arms.
She feels, she knows - this maid, this barren girl
By our desire fit to move the world
The gift of body's beauty is sublime
And draws forgiveness out of every crime.
She knows no Hell, or any afterlife,
And when her time shall come to face the Night
She'll meet Death like a newborn, face to face
In innocence - with neither guilt nor hate.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFFGGHIJJFKLM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1001010101 1001110101 1011010111 1011010101 1111010100 1110110100 1001110101 1100010101 0101010101 0101101001 0111010101 1101010101 1111111101 11001011101 0111010101 01010111001 111111010 0101111101 1111010111 0100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 824 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 665 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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