Analysis of On Beauty Untamed
“Poetry must have something in it that is
barbaric, vast and wild.” –Denis Diderot
In lovely light and lofty pose,
It perched an autumn limb.
Rebalancing, a wing arose
Revealing something grim ...
Though Nature's beauty knows not sin,
Still ruthless reign her laws,—
A mangled mouse was clutched within
The raptor's razored claws.
| Scheme | XX ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110011100111 0101011011 01010101 111101 01000101 010101 11010111 110101 01011101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 387 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
One thing about Nature that has always bewildered me, or that I at least found incomprehensible, is how everywhere beauty and evil commingle in a deadly dance … hence the poem.
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