Analysis of Temple de la Douleur
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
My soul has suffered breaking on the wheel,
Flogging with lead, and felt the twinging ache
Of barbéd hooks and jagged points of steel,
Peine forte et dure, slow burning at the stake,
Blinding and branding, stripping on the rack,
The canque and kourbash and the torquéd screw,
The boot and branks, red scourging on the back,
The gallows and the gibbet. All for you.
These tortures are as nothing to the pain
That I have suffered when you gaze at me
With cold disdainful eyes. You do not deign
To smile or talk or even set me free-
Yet once you let me hold your perfumed hand
And danced with me a stately saraband.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet (93%) |
Metre | 1111010101 101101011 111101111 11011110101 1001010101 010100111 0101110101 010001111 1101110101 1111011111 1101011111 1111110111 1111111011 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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