Analysis of The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
The wide Pacific waters
And the Atlantic meet.
With cries of joy they mingle,
In tides of love they greet.
Above the drowned ages
A wind of wooing blows: —
The red rose woos the lotos,
The lotos woos the rose . . .
The lotos conquered Egypt.
The rose was loved in Rome.
Great India crowned the lotos:
(Britain the rose's home).
Old China crowned the lotos,
They crowned it in Japan.
But Christendom adored the rose
Ere Christendom began . . .
The lotos speaks of slumber:
The rose is as a dart.
The lotos is Nirvana:
The rose is Mary's heart.
The rose is deathless, restless,
The splendor of our pain:
The flush and fire of labor
That builds, not all in vain. . . .
The genius of the lotos
Shall heal earth's too-much fret.
The rose, in blinding glory,
Shall waken Asia yet.
Hail to their loves, ye peoples!
Behold, a world-wind blows,
That aids the ivory lotos
To wed the red red rose!
Scheme | ABXBXCAC XDADAECE FGXGXHFH AIXIXCAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010 000101 1111110 011111 010110 011101 011101 01101 011010 011101 1100101 100101 110101 111001 11000101 110001 011110 011101 011010 011101 011110 0101101 01010110 111101 010101 111111 0101010 110101 1111110 010111 1101001 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 895 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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