Analysis of He Made This Screen
Marianne Moore 1887 (Kirkwood) – 1972 (New York City)
not of silver nor of coral,
but of weatherbeaten laurel.
Here, he introduced a sea
uniform like tapestry;
here, a fig-tree; there, a face;
there, a dragon circling space --
designating here, a bower;
there, a pointed passion-flower.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 11101110 11110 110101 101100 1011101 10101001 1001010 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 240 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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