Analysis of The Cornet
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
When she came out, that white little Russian dancer,
With her bright hair, and her eyes, so young, so young,
He suddenly lost his leader, and all the players,
And only heard an immortal music sung,-
Of dryads flashing in the green woods of April,
On cobwebs trembling over the deep, wet grass:
Fleeing their shadows with laughter, with hands uplifted,
Through the whirled sinister sun he saw them pass,-
Lovely immortals gone, yet existing somewhere,
Still somewhere laughing in woods of immortal green,
Young he had lived among fires, or dreamed of living,
Lovers in youth once seen, or dreamed he had seen. . .
And watched her knees flash up, and her young hands beckon,
And the hair that streamed behind, and the taunting eyes.
He felt this place dissolving in living darkness,
And through the darkness he felt his childhood rise.
Soft, and shining, and sweet, hands filled with petals. . .
And watching her dance, he was grateful to forget
The fiddlers, leaning and drawing their bows together,
And the tired fingers on the stops of his cornet.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDXD XEXE XFAF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111101010 10110011111 1100111001010 01011010101 11100011110 11100100111 101111011100 10110011111 10010110101 11100110101 1111011011110 10011111111 010111001110 001110100101 111101001010 0101011111 10100111110 010011110101 01001001011010 0010101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,052 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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