Analysis of Michaelangelo
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Would I might wake in you the whirl-wind soul
Of Michelangelo, who hewed the stone
And Night and Day revealed, whose arm alone
Could draw the face of God, the titan high
Whose genius smote like lightning from the sky —
And shall he mold like dead leaves in the grave?
Nay he is in us! Let us dare and dare.
God help us to be brave.
| Scheme | ABBCCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010111 10101101 0101011101 1101110101 1101110101 0111111001 1110111101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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