Analysis of Heap Cassia, Sandal-Buds and Stripes
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
Heap Cassia, sandal-buds and stripes
Of labdanum, and aloe-balls,
Smeared with dull nard an Indian wipes
From out her hair: such balsam falls
Down sea-side mountain pedestals,
From tree-tops where tired winds are fain,
Spent with the vast and howling main,
To treasure half their island-gain.
And strew faint sweetness from some old
Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud
Which breaks to dust when once unrolled;
Or shredded perfume, like a cloud
From closet long to quiet vowed,
With mothed and dropping arras hung,
Mouldering her lute and books among,
As when a queen, long dead, was young.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010101 11011 111111001 11011101 11110100 111110111 11010101 11011101 01110111 111101 1111111 11001101 11011101 1101011 1010101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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