Analysis of Salome
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
Proud panoply of fans and frankincense,
Gold blare of trumpets, flowered robes of state,
Unnumbered symbols of magnificence,
To lead Salome through the palace gate,
Where loud the prophet of the Lord blasphemes
The red abominations of her race
And chides her for her flesh-entangled dreams
and turns his back upon her painted face.
Thus do we turn from some red-shadowed lust
That through the broken forests of the brain
Weaves silently with tentacles out-thrust,
Groping in darkness, but for one in vain,
For like a sliding sun the soul has fled
Leaving a princess and a vultured head.
Scheme | ABABACXC DEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011010 1111010111 11011 1101010101 110101011 011101 0101010101 0111010101 1111111101 1101010101 1100110011 1001011101 1101010111 100100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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