Analysis of Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water - On Turning Latin into English
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
Alembics turn to stranger things
Strange things, but never while we live
Shall magic turn this bronze that sings
To singing water in a sieve.
The trumpets of Cæsar's guard
Salute his rigorous bastions
With ordered bruit; the bronze is hard
Though there is silver in the bronze.
Our mutable tongue is like the sea,
Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit;
Dangle in strings of sand shall he
Who smoothes the ripples out of it.
| Scheme | AXAX BXBX CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 111101 11110111 11011111 11010001 0101111 01110010 11010111 11110001 1010011101 110100101 10011111 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 431 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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