Analysis of Tomb (Of Verlaine)
Stéphane Mallarmé 1842 (Paris) – 1898 (Vulaines-sur-Seine)
Anniversary – January 1897
The black rock enraged that the north wind rolls it on
Will not stop itself, nor, under pious hands, still
Cease testing its resemblance to human ill
As if to bless some fatal cast of bronze.
Here nearly always if the ring-dove coos
This immaterial grief with many a fold of cloud
Crushes the ripe star of tomorrows, whose crowd
Will be silvered by its scintillations. Who
Following the solitary leap
External now of our vagabond – seeks
Verlaine? He’s hidden in the grass, Verlaine
Only to catch, naïvely, not drying it with his breath
And without the lip drinking there, at peace again,
A shallow stream that’s slandered, and named Death.
Scheme | X ABBX XCCX XXA DXD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0100100 011011011111 111011101011 11010101101 1111110111 110110111 1010011100111 1001110111 1111111 10001001 01011101001 11100011 1011111101111 001011011101 0101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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