Analysis of Artist's Life
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Of all the waltzes the great Strauss wrote,
mad with melody, rhythm--rife
From the very first to the final note,
Give me his "Artist's Life!"
It stirs my blood to my finger ends,
Thrills me and fills me with vague unrest,
And all that is sweetest and saddest blends
Together within my breast.
It brings back that night in the dim arcade,
In love's sweet morning and life's best prime,
When the great brass orchestra played and played,
And set our thoughts to rhyme.
It brings back that Winter of mad delights,
Of leaping pulses and tripping feet,
And those languid moon-washed Summer nights
When we heard the band in the street.
It brings back rapture and glee and glow,
It brings back passion and pain and strife,
And so of all the waltzes I know,
Give me the "Artist's Life."
For it is so full of the dear old time--
So full of the dear friends I knew.
And under its rhythm, and lilt, and rhyme,
I am always finding--you.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB FJFJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110100111 11100101 1010110101 111101 111111101 110111101 0111100101 0100111 1111100101 011100111 1011100101 0110111 1111101101 110100101 011011101 11101001 111100101 111100101 011101011 110101 1111110111 11101111 0101100101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 926 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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