Analysis of On The Conflagration Of The Po
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
Why is, and whence, the Po in flames? and why
In consternation do its borderers raise
Imploring hands to mortal men around
And Gods above? Are Gods implacable?
Or men bereft of sight at such a blaze?
Apollo hath no more a son; his breath
Is stifled, and smoke only fills the air
Where once was fire, and men to men were true.
Fierce ones and faithless now approach the waste,
Who look transversely with an evil eye,
And scowl and threaten, and uplift the sword,
And, if they lower it, 'tis but to grasp more
And more of amber left on either bank. Apollo hates the land he once so loved,
Nor swan is seen nor nightingale is heard
Nigh the dead river and affrighted vale,
For every Nymph shed there incessant tears,
And into amber hardened all they shed.
Scheme | ABCDBEFGHAIJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 00101111 0101110101 0101110100 1101111101 0101110111 1100110101 11110011101 110110101 11111101 0101001001 01110111111 01110111010101011111 1111110011 10110011 11001110101 0011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 590 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 141 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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