Analysis of On A Torso Of Cupid
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
PEACH trees and Judas trees,
Poppies and roses,
Purple anemones
In garden closes!
Lost in the limpid sky,
Shrills a gay lark on high;
Lost in the covert's hush,
Gurgles a wooing thrush.
Look, where the ivy weaves,
Closely embracing,
Tendrils of clinging leaves
Round him enlacing,
With Nature's sacredness
Clothing the nakedness,
Clothing the marble of
This poor, dismembered love.
Gone are the hands whose skill
Aimed the light arrow,
Strong once to cure or kill,
Pierce to the marrow;
Gone are the lips whose kiss
Held hives of honeyed bliss;
Gone too the little feet,
Overfond, overfleet.
O helpless god of old,
Maimed mid the tender
Blossoming white and gold
Of April splendour!
Shall we not make thy grave
Where the long grasses wave;
Hide thee, O headless god,
Deep in the daisied sod?
Here thou mayst rest at last
After life's fever;
After love's fret is past
Rest thee for ever.
Nay, broken God of Love,
Still must thou bide above
While, left for woe or weal,
Thou has a heart to feel.
Villa Mattei.
Scheme | ABABCCDD EXECFAGG HIHIFFJJ KLKIMMNN OLOLGGHXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 10010 101 01010 10011 101111 10011 10101 110101 10010 11101 111 110100 1001 100101 110101 110111 10110 111111 11010 110111 11111 110101 11 110111 11010 100101 1101 111111 101101 111101 10011 111111 10110 101111 11110 110111 111101 111111 110111 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,015 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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