Analysis of Zorah
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
An Arab beats upon a kettle drum,
And tuneless is the wailing of the flutes
As on the sands a slavegirl executes
Her dance of wantonwild delirium;
Her body swaying like a pendulum
Backwards and forwards, while in evolutes
She weaves and weaves before fierce pagan brutes
Who gaze at her in wonder that is dumb.
I look upon her limbs bronzed by the sun,
And see within her eyes strange caravans,
Marching all day across blank desert lands,
Until they come at night to where in rings
The Nomad fires glimmer, one by one,
around the tombs of longforgotten kings.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 011010101 11010110 01110100 0101010100 10010101 1101011101 1110010111 1101011101 010101110 1011011101 0111111101 011010111 0101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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