Analysis of Dissonance

Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)



You've slipped from out your evening gown, you muse
Before the polished lookingglass, a hand
Unclasping frail corsage, while you peruse
Your blushing charms. Your wayward eyes demand
Intrigue, as slowly you remove the clothes
Which cling around your girlish loveliness.
In silken stockings of the palest rose
Your slender legs encased, twin gracefulness
Beyond compare, while all your perfumed hair
Comes tumbling down and glorybath of gold ;
And thus you stand before me ivorybare
Craving to yield in passion as of old.
I take you in my arms yet am I sad,
So many other loves have made you glad


Scheme ABABCADAEFEFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111 01010101 11011101 1101110101 0111010101 11011101 0101010101 11010111 0101111011 110010111 01110111 1011010111 1110111111 1101011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 590
Words 103
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 482
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Harry Crosby

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