Analysis of In My Craft Or Sullen Art
Dylan Thomas 1914 (Swansea) – 1953 (Greenwich Village)
In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.
Scheme | ABCDEBDEFFAABFDGEFFA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0111101 100011 1100110 0010101 1111011 111101 1101011 1010111 1010010 1101010 111101 1101101 1010111 11110 1101001 11101 1101011 1011010 1111110 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 442 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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