Sun-Rhapsody
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
The Sun! the Sun!
a fish in the aquarium of sky
or golden net to snare the butterfly
of soul
or else the hole
through which the stars have disappeared
it is a forest without trees
it is a lion in a cage of breeze
it is the roundness of her knees
great Hercules
and all the seas
and our soliloquies
winter-cold anchorite
summer-hot sybarite
to-day a lady wraped in clouds
tomorrow hunted by the hungry clouds
it is a monster that our thoughts have speared
the queen we chanticleered
a mother's womb
a child's balloon-
red burning tomb
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAABBC DDDDDD CCEECC FXF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 521 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 3 |
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