Analysis of Madame la Fleurie
Wallace Stevens 1879 (Reading) – 1955 (Hartford)
Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of
the end.
Seal him there. He looked in a glass of the earth and thought
he lived in it.
Now, he brings all that he saw into the earth, to the waiting
parent.
His crisp knowledge is devoured by her, beneath a dew.
Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the
moon.
It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he
could be told.
It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.
It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak.
The black fugatos are strumming the blackness of black...
The thick strings stutter the finial gutturals.
He does not lie there remembering the blue-jay, say the jay.
His grief is that his mother should feed on him, himself and
what he saw,
In that distant chamber, a bearded queen, wicked in her dead
light.
Scheme | XXXXXXX XXXXXX XAXXAXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) |
Metre | 111111101101 01 1111100110101 1101 111111101011010 10 11101010100101 111111010010 1 11100101110111101 111 110101101111111 110111100111 01111001011 01110011 111110100011101 11111101111010 111 011010010110001 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 841 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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