Analysis of The Fan
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell 1887 (Scarborough) – 1964 (Weedon Lois)
LOVELY Semiramis
Closes her slanting eyes:
Dead is she long ago.
From her fan, sliding slow,
Parrot-bright fire's feathers,
Gilded as June weathers,
Plumes bright and shrill as grass
Twinkle down; as they pass
Through the green glooms in Hell
Fruits with a tuneful smell,
Grapes like an emerald rain,
Where the full moon has lain,
Greengages bright as grass,
Melons as cold as glass,
Piled on each gilded booth,
Feel their cheeks growing smooth.
Apes in plumed head-dresses
Whence the bright heat hisses,--
Nubian faces, sly
Pursing mouth, slanting eye,
Feel the Arabian
Winds floating from the fan.
Scheme | AABBAAAACCDDAAEFAAGGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 100101 111101 101101 1011010 101110 110111 101111 101101 110101 111101 101111 1111 101111 111101 111101 101110 101110 100101 11101 100100 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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