Analysis of A Glimpse Of China. In A Chair.
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
From the bright and blinding sunshine,
From the whirling locust's song,
Into the dark and narrow fissures
Of the streets I am borne along.
Here and there dusky-beaming
A sun-shaft broadens and drops
On the brown bare crowd slow-passing
The crowd of the open shops.
We move on over the bridges
With their straight-hewn blocks of stone.
And their quaint grey animal figures,
And the booths the hucksters own.
Behind a linen awning
Sits an ancient wight half-dead,
And a little dear of a girl is
Examining - his head.
On a bended bamboo shouldered,
Bearing a block of stone,
Two worn-out coolies half-naked
Utter their grunting groan.
Children, almond-eyed beauties,
Impossibly mangy curs,
Take part in the motley stream of
Insouciant passengers.
This is the dream, the vision
That comes to me and greets -
The vision of Retribution
In the labyrinthine streets!
Scheme | XABA CDCD XEBE CFXF XEXE XBXB GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 1010101 101011 010101010 10111101 101110 0111001 10111110 0110101 11110010 1111111 011110010 0010101 0101010 1110111 001011011 010011 10100110 100111 1111110 101101 1010110 0100101 11001011 010100 1101010 111101 0101010 00011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 866 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 13, 2023
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