Analysis of Jade

Edith Wharton 1862 (New York City) – 1937 (Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt)



THE patient craftsman of the East who made
His undulant dragons of the veined jade,
And wound their sinuous volutes round the whole
Pellucid green redundance of the bowl,
Chiseled his subtle traceries with the same
Keen stone he wrought them in.
Nor praise, nor blame,
Nor gifts the years relinquish or refuse,
But only a grief commensurate with thy soul,
Shall carve it in a shape for gods to use.


Scheme AABBCDCEBF
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 0101010111 11101011 011101101 111101 101101101 111110 1111 1101010101 110010100111 1110011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 397
Words 73
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 320
Words per stanza (avg) 71
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 03, 2023

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. more…

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