Analysis of Metaphors of a Magnifico
Wallace Stevens 1879 (Reading) – 1955 (Hartford)
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.
This is old song
That will not declare itself . . .
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.
That will not declare itself
Yet is certain as meaning . . .
The boots of the men clump
On the boards of the bridge.
The first white wall of the village
Rises through fruit-trees.
Of what was it I was thinking?
So the meaning escapes.
The first white wall of the village...
The fruit-trees...
Scheme | ABccxb xD ABxAB De xaBfex Bf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011001 01010 1101101010 0110100 111 10010101010 1111 1110101 1011001 01010 1 1011001 01010 1110101 1110110 011011 101101 01111010 10111 11111110 101001 01111010 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 5, 2, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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