Analysis of The State Of Helen
Your quiescence dear Helen
Piques a poet's heart...it
Devours wholly unchewed
All feathered pseudo gods.
Your silence skips, rejects
A fortune, like evading an enemy
In a battlefield of no war.
Your sigh sweet Helen
Marked the beginning
Of my manhood.
Your death glorifies those
Who cannot, both mind and heart--
Antonymous to me, for
Your death signifies, as it would--
A new world
I hate to live in, for
Its denizens are the dead, not the living.
Your death my dear Helen
Means my uttermost silence.
| Scheme | ABBCDEFAGBHBFBBFGAI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 10101 010101 110101 110101 01010101100 0010111 11110 10010 111 11101 1101101 1111 1110111 011 111101 11001011010 111110 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 483 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 395 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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