Analysis of Latakia
When all the panes are hung with frost,
Wild wizard-work of silver lace,
I draw my sofa on the rug,
Before the ancient chimney-place.
Upon the painted tiles are mosques
And minarets, and here and there
A blind muezzin lifts his hands,
And calls the faithful unto prayer.
Folded in idle, twilight dreams,
I hear the hemlock chirp and sing,
As if within its ruddy core
It held the happy heart of Spring.
Ferdousi never sang like that,
Nor Saadi grave, nor Hafiz gay;
I lounge, and blow white rings of smoke,
And watch them rise and float away.
The curling wreaths like turbans seem
Of silent slaves that come and go,—
Or Viziers, packed with craft and crime,
Whom I behead from time to time,
With pipe-stem, at a single blow.
And now and then a lingering cloud
Takes gracious form at my desire,
And at my side my lady stands,
Unwinds her veil with snowy hands,—
A shadowy shape, a breath of fire!
O Love, if you were only here
Beside me in this mellow light,
Though all the bitter winds should blow,
And all the ways be choked with snow,
'Twould be a true Arabian night!
Scheme | XAXAXBCBXDXDXEXE XFGGFXHCCH XIFFI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11011101 11110101 01010101 01010111 0010101 011111 01010101 1001011 1101101 11011101 11010111 110111 111111 11011111 01110101 01011101 11011101 1111101 11011111 11110101 010101001 110111010 01111101 1011101 0100101110 11110101 01101101 11010111 01011111 110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,055 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 10, 5 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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