Analysis of Jean Cocteau’s poem for Welles
Jean Cocteau 1889 (Maisons-Laffitte) – 1963 (Milly-la-Forêt)
Orson Welles is a poet
through his violence
and through his grace.
Never does he tumble
from the tightrope
on which he crosses cities
and their dramas.
He is a poet too in the
Loyal friendship he bears
our dreams and our struggles.
Others will know better than I
how to praise his work.
I content myself with sending him
my fraternal greeting.
His handshake is as firm as he is
and I think of it each time my work
obliges me to leap over an obstacle.
| Scheme | XXXAXXX XXX XBXX XBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011010 11100 0111 101110 101 1111010 0110 11010100 101011 10101010 10111011 11111 11011101 101010 11111111 011111111 010111101100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 442 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 3, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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