Analysis of The art of alma-tadema
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
There is no song his colours cannot sing,
For all his art breathes melody, and tunes
The fine, keen beauty that his brushes bring
To murmuring marbles and to golden Junes.
The music of those marbles you can hear
In every crevice, where the deep green stains
Have sunken when the grey days of the year
Spilled leisurely their warm, incessant rains
That, lingering, forget to leave the ledge,
But drenched into the seams, amid the hush
Of ages, leaving but the silent pledge
To waken to the wonder of his brush.
And at the Master's touch the marbles leap
To life, the creamy onyx and the skins
Of copper-coloured leopards, and the deep,
Cool basins where the whispering water wins
Reflections from the gold and glowing sun,
And tints from warm, sweet human flesh, for fair
And subtly lithe and beautiful, leans one--
A goddess with a wealth of tawny hair.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111101 1111110001 0111011101 11001001101 0101110111 01001010111 1101011101 1100110101 1100011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010001 1101010001 11010100101 0101010101 0111110111 01001010011 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 871 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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