Analysis of Sorcerer Virgil and I



Recollection is dangerous.
Tragedy? Repeats itself.
It is a tale of a sorcerer.
Virgil, he called himself.

Dreading old age,
he looked for ways to rejuvenate.
Chopped himself into a cauldron.
To be cooked for 8 days straight.

As needed, he hired a guard.
So no one peeped in.
But as is nature,
the watchman couldn't hold it in.

It was too soon.

Virgil, like a child,
disappeared with a cry.
So it is with me.
The fate I must live by.

For I too peeped in early,
into the cauldron; the cauldron of life.
Thus, with no doubt,
will never manage to be more than a child.


Scheme XABA XCXC XDBD X EFGF GXXE
Poetic Form
Metre 0101100 1000101 110110100 101101 1011 11111010 10101010 111111 11011001 11110 11110 01010110 1111 10101 01101 11111 011111 1111010 0101001011 1111 11010111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 545
Words 108
Sentences 17
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

Adapted from Kierkegaard's Either/or.

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Written on August 10, 2021

Submitted by DimitriPseudonymous on October 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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