Analysis of Art.
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
Yes, let Art go, if it must be
That with it men must starve -
If Music, Painting, Poetry
Spring from the wasted hearth.
Pluck out the flower, however fair,
Whose beauty cannot bloom,
(However sweet it be, or rare)
Save from a noisome tomb.
These social manners, charm and ease,
Are hideous to who knows
The degradation, the disease
From which their beauty flows.
So, Poet, must thy singing be;
O Painter, so thy scene;
Musician, so thy melody,
While misery is queen.
Nay, brothers, sing us battle-songs
With clear and ringing rhyme;
Nay, show the world its hateful wrongs,
And bring the better time!
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE AFAF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111111 111111 11010100 110101 11010101 110101 1011111 11011 11010101 1100111 0010001 111101 11011101 110111 01011100 110011 11011101 110101 11011101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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