Analysis of Roman Fountain
Louise Bogan 1897 (Livermore Falls) – 1970 (New York City)
Up from the bronze, I saw
Water without a flaw
Rush to its rest in air,
Reach to its rest, and fall.
Bronze of the blackest shade,
An element man-made,
Shaping upright the bare
Clear gouts of water in air.
O, as with arm and hammer,
Still it is good to strive
To beat out the image whole,
To echo the shout and stammer
When full-gushed waters, alive,
Strike on the fountain's bowl
After the air of summer.
Scheme | AABX CCBB DEFDEFD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 100101 111101 111101 110101 110011 100101 1111001 1111010 111111 1110101 11001010 1111001 11011 1001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 400 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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