Analysis of Alchemy Of Suffering
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
One's ardour, Nature, makes you bright,
One finds within you mourning, grief!
What speaks to one of tombs and death
Says to the other, Splendour! Life!
Mystical Hermes, help to me,
Intimidating though you are,
You make me Midas' counterpart,
No sadder alchemist than he;
My gold is iron by your spell,
And paradise turns into hell;
I see in winding-sheets of clouds
A dear cadaver in its shroud,
And there upon celestial strands
I raise huge tombs above the sands.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 11011101 11111101 1101011 10010111 0100111 1111010 11010011 11110111 0101011 11010111 01010011 01010101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 14, 2023
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