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
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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Marianne Moore

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