Analysis of A Fantastical Engraving
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
This freakish ghost has nothing else to wear
But some cheap crown he picked up at a fair
Grotesquely perched atop his bony corpse.
Without a whip or spur he drives his horse
Ghostly as he, hack of apocalypse
To pant and drool like someone in a fit.
This duo makes its charge through endless space,
Trampling the infinite with reckless pace.
The horseman waves a blazing sword around
The nameless crowds he's trampled to the ground,
And like a prince inspecting his domain
He travels to a graveyard's empty plain
Where lie, with pallid sunshine overhead,
From old and modem times, the storied dead.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110111 1111111101 0101011101 0101111111 101111010 110111001 1101111101 1001001101 0101010101 0101110101 0101010101 110101101 111101101 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 14, 2023
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