Analysis of For The Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe
Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947
(January 19, 1909)
Poet of doom, dementia, and death,
Of beauty singing in a charnel house,
Like the lost soul of a poor moon-mad maid,
With too much loving of some lord of hell;
Doomed and disastrous spirit, to what shore
Of what dark gulf infernal art thou strayed,
Or to what spectral star of topless heaven
Art lifted and enthroned?
The winter dark,
And the drear winter cold that welcomed thee
To a world all winter, gird with ice and storm
Thy January day-yea! the same world
Of winter and the wintry hearts of men;
And still, for all thy shining, the same swarm
That mocked thy song gather about thy fame,
With the small murmur of the undying worm,
And whisper, blind and foul, amid thy dust.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100 1011010001 110100011 1011101111 1111011111 1001010111 1111010111 1111111010 11001 0101 0011011101 10111011101 110011011 1100010111 0111110011 1111100111 10110100101 0101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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