Analysis of Botticelli
”He’s spirit, alchemist or sorcerer”,
they said wickedly whispering poison
mumbling, their faces distorted by envy,
frowning, gossiping spreading slander.
The bigots’ rumor traveled in plazas
echoing in the crowd’s ear:
”He cannot be mortal”.
But how the Florentines praised him,
that sacred morning when he glimpsed
the perpetual ingenue on the white canvas
with porcelain skin
and almond-shaped eyes.
Towards dusk he sensed
that the Tyrrhenian sea was green,
he had a few final touches left
when it seemed to him that she had been gazing at it
for a moment, with lightning speed
above the rooftops and the Tuscany hills,
or maybe it was just him,
then the color impossible to mold by his confreres
suddenly enlightened her gaze
under which dumbfounded centaurs
remained stone-still.
Beyond time she kept haunting him
under thousands of faces,
he knew that she had stolen
immortality for him
and he began to fear.
He sent his soul far away
defeated by Savonarola,
but she would come in his dreams
night after night,
foretelling the moment
of their reunion,
in one mother-of-pearl morning
on the green of the sea
impossible to render
by human hand,
where the sun
never sets.
Scheme | ABCADEFGHIJKLMNOPQGRSTUGDBGVWFXYZB1 CA2 B3 |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 1101001100 1110010010 100110010110 101001010 0101010010 1000011 110110 110111 11010111 0010001010110 11001 01011 01111 100100111 110110101 1111111111011 10101101 0101001001 1101111 10100100111110 10001001 1011001 0111 01111101 1010110 1111110 010011 010111 1111101 01011 1111011 1101 010010 11010 01101110 101101 0100110 1101 101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,188 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 40 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 945 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 197 |
About this poem
This poem is dedicated to his painting „The birth of Venus”
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