Analysis of A Chicot
Muriel Stuart 1885 – 1967
IN days of ancient history
Who were you? Tell me if you know.
Between your kisses answer me
To-night, Chicot.
Were you a faun by Castaly
Tracking Urania or Clio?
Or a white boy in Arcady
Astray, Chicot?
Were you a satin-supple page
Swinging a curtain to and fro,
Chanting some impudent addage
Of love, Chicot?
Were you the subtlest cardinal
That ever blessing did bestow?
At Fontarabia did you fall,
Fighting, Chicot?
Or at some monarch' table set,
Did the bells twink at wrist and toe?
Were you Brusquet or Dagonet,
Or else, Chicot?
Something you were of all of these,
Wise, gay, serene--that hid below,
More sad for all your subtleties,
Something, Chicot.
You brace your armor well tonight,--
Too well for any blood to flow;
You'd not betray in any fight
A wound, Chicot!
I think you would not flinch beneath
Life's whips, but after every blow
Stand up again, and set your teeth
And smile, Chicot.
Weariness waits on wariness,
There's leaping flame beneath the snow--
All sorts of things that none would guess
Of you, Chicot!
Are you a lover? No and yes!
Are you a comrade? Yes and no!
What are you? Neither more nor less
Than just Chicot!
Take what a passing poet sings
Before to-morrow bids us go,
In memory of--many things,
And you, Chicot!
Scheme | ABAC DBCC EBEC DBDC CBCC FBFC CBCC GBGC XBHC HBHC IBIC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (36%) |
Metre | 01110100 10111111 01110101 111 010111 101110 101101 011 01010101 10010101 10111 111 0101100 11010101 11111 101 1111101 10111101 01111 111 10101111 11011101 11111100 101 11110101 11110111 11010101 011 11111101 111101001 11010111 011 10011100 11010101 11111111 111 11010101 1101101 11110111 111 11010101 01110111 01001101 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,243 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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