Analysis of Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre
Edith Wharton 1862 (New York City) – 1937 (Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt)
WHAT strange presentiment, O Mother, lies
On thy waste brow and sadly-folded lips,
Forefeeling the Light's terrible eclipse
On Calvary, as if love made thee wise,
And thou couldst read in those dear infant eyes
The sorrow that beneath their smiling sleeps,
And guess what bitter tears a mother weeps
When the cross darkens her unclouded skies?
Sad Lady, if some mother, passing thee,
Should feel a throb of thy foreboding pain,
And think - 'My child at home clings so to me,
With the same smile . . . and yet in vain, in vain,
Since even this Jesus died on Calvary' -
Say to her then: 'He also rose again.'
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Metre | 1111101 1111010101 10110001 1100111111 0111011101 0101011101 0111010101 1011011 1101110101 1101110101 0111111111 1011010101 11011011100 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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