Analysis of Impression de Nuit ( London )
Lord Alfred Douglas 1870 (Worcestershire) – 1945 (Lancing)
See what a mass of gems the city wears
Upon her broad live bosom! row on row
Rubies and emeralds and amethysts glow.
See! that huge circle like a necklace, stares
With thousands of bold eyes to heaven, and dares
The golden stars to dim the lamps below,
And in the mirror of the mire I know
The moon has left her image unawares.
That's the great town at night: I see her breasts,
Pricked out with lamps they stand like huge black towers.
I think they move! I hear her panting breath.
And that's her head where the tiara rests.
And in her brain, through lanes as dark as death,
Men creep like thoughts...The lamps are like pale flowers
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDECED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 0101110111 10010011 1111010101 11011111001 0101110101 0001010111 011101001 1011111101 11111111110 1111110101 0101100101 0001111111 1111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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