Analysis of Père-la-Chaise



I STOOD in Père-la-Chaise. The putrid City,
Paris, the harlot of the nations, lay,
The bug-bright thing that knows not love nor pity,
Flashing her bare shame to the summer's day.
Here where I stand, they slew you, brothers, whom
Hell's wrongs unutterable had made as mad.
The rifle shots re-echoed in his tomb,
The gilded scoundrel's who had been so glad.
O Morny, O blood-sucker of thy race —
O brain, O hand that wrought out empire that
The lust in one for power, for tinsel place,
Might rest; one lecher's hungry heart grow fat —
Is it for nothing, now and evermore,
O you whose sin in life had death in ease,
The murder of your victims beats the door
Wherein your careless carrion lies at peace?


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGHGI
Poetic Form
Metre 110111101010 1001010101 01111111110 1001110101 1111111101 1111111 0101110011 010111111 111110111 11111111001 01011101101 111110111 111101010 1111011101 0101110101 01110100111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 704
Words 132
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 537
Words per stanza (avg) 129
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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