Analysis of The Visible, The Untrue
Harold Hart Crane 1899 (Garrettsville, Ohio) – 1932 (Gulf of Mexico)
Yes, I being
the terrible puppet of my dreams, shall
lavish this on you-
the dense mine of the orchid, split in two.
And the fingernails that cinch such
environs?
And what about the staunch neighbor tabulations,
with all their zest for doom?
I'm wearing badges
that cancel all your kindness. Forthright
I watch the silver Zeppelin
destroy the sky. To
stir your confidence?
To rouse what sanctions-?
The silver strophe… the canto
bright with myth… Such
distances leap landward without
evil smile. And, as for me….
The window weight throbs in its blind
partition. To extinguish what I have of faith.
Yes, light. And it is always
always, always the eternal rainbow
And it is always the day, the farewell day unkind.
Scheme | XXAABCCX XXXAXC DBXX EXXDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 0100101111 10111 0111010101 0010111 010 01010110010 111111 11010 110111011 11010100 01011 11100 11110 0101010 1111 10011001 1010111 01011011 010101011111 110111 1100101 01110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 704 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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