Analysis of The Invocation Of Jealousy
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
The conquered world is bowed and worshipful,
And lovely Peace smooth-gowned in lightest grey
Cries, 'War is Dead' and treads upon it's skull.
While silken women walk their rosy way
Sneering at swords, and tittering at deeds,
And kicking relics with their pearl-shod feet,
Saying with mirth, 'The body never bleeds.
Old Mars is corpsed beneath great Bacchus'
seat.'
Young Mothers tell their babies of rusted spears
Of timid wolves, long fled to northern skies,
Of priests that sang of March in olden years,
And died in May with vain, despairing eyes,
The world is soothed with olive-juice and wine,
And spits upon the Quirinalian* shrine.
Scheme | ABABCDCEDFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 0101110100 0101110101 1111010111 1101011101 10110111 0101011111 1011010101 111101110 1 11011101101 1101111101 1111110101 0101110101 0111110101 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 506 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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