Analysis of Famam Librosque Cano
Your songs?
Oh! The little mothers
Will sing them in the twilight,
And when the night
Shrinketh the kiss of the dawn
That loves and kills,
What time the swallow fills
Here note, the little rabbit folk
That some call children,
Such as are up and wide,
Will laugh your verses to each other,
Pulling on their shoes for the day's business,
Serious child business that the world
Laughs at, and grows stale;
Such is the tale
-Part of it-of thy song-life.
A book is known by them that read
That same. Thy public in my screed
Is listed. Well! Some score years hence
Behold mine audience,
As we had seen him yesterday.
Scrawny, be-spectacled, out at heels,
Such an one as the world feels
A sort of curse against its guzzling
And its age-lasting wallow for red greed
And yet; full speed
Though it should run for its own getting,
Will turn aside to sneer at
'Cause he hath
No coin, no will to snatch the aftermath
Of Mammon
Such an one as women draw away from
For the tobacco ashes scattered on his coat
And sith his throat
Show's razor's unfamiliarity
And three days' beard;
Such an one picking a ragged
Backless copy from the stall,
Too cheap for cataloguing,
Loquitur,
'Ah-eh! the strange rare name . . .
Ah-eh! He must be rare if even 7 have not . . .’
And lost mid-page
Such age
As his pardons the habit,
He analyses form and thought to see
How I 'scaped immortality.
Scheme | XXAABCCXXXDXXEEX XFXXX GGHFFHXIIBXJJKX XXHD XXLLXKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 101010 111001 0101 101101 1101 110101 11010101 11110 111101 111101110 1011110110 100110101 11011 1101 1111111 01111111 11110011 11011111 011100 1111110 1011111 1111011 0111011100 0111010111 0111 111111110 1101111 111 111111010 11 1111101011 10011010111 0111 1100100 0111 11110010 1010101 111100 1 110111 11111111011 0111 11 1110010 101010111 1110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,331 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 5, 15, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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