Analysis of Beneath A Photoraph
Francis Thompson 1859 (City of Preston, Lancashire) – 1907 (London)
Phoebus, who taught me art divine,
Here tried his hand where I did mine;
And his white fingers in this face
Set my Fair's sigh-suggesting grace.
O sweetness past profaning guess,
Grievous with its own exquisiteness!
Vesper-like face, its shadows bright
With meanings of sequestered light;
Drooped with shamefast sanctities
She purely fears eyes cannot miss,
Yet would blush to know she IS.
Ah, who can view with passionless glance
This tear-compelling countenance!
He has cozened it to tell
Almost its own miracle.
Yet I, all-viewing though he be,
Methinks saw further here than he;
And, Master gay! I swear I drew
Something the better of the two!
Scheme | AABBCBDDBEFGHIJKKLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111101 11111111 01110011 11110101 110111 101111 1011111 11010101 1111 11011101 1111111 1111111 11010100 111111 111100 11110111 1110111 01011111 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 516 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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