Analysis of Francis II, King of Naples
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Written after reading Trevelyan's "Garibaldi and the making of Italy"
Poor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain,
Decaying victim of a race of kings,
Swift Destiny shook out her purple wings
And caught him in their shadow; not again
Could furtive plotting smear another stain
Across his tarnished honour. Smoulderings
Of sacrificial fires burst their rings
And blotted out in smoke his lost domain.
Bereft of courtiers, only with his queen,
From empty palace down to empty quay.
No challenge screamed from hostile carabine.
A single vessel waited, shadowy;
All night she ploughed her solitary way
Beneath the stars, and through a tranquil sea.
Scheme | A BCCXBCCBXABAXA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101010101000101100 11011001 0101010111 1100110101 011011101 1101010101 0111011 101010111 0101011101 01110010111 1101011101 11011101 0101010100 111101001 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 261 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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