Analysis of At The Ambassadeurs
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
TO YVETTE GUILBERT
That was Yvette. The blithe Ambassadeurs
Glitters, this Sunday of the Fête des Fleurs;
Here are the flowers, too, living flowers that blow
A night or two before the odours go;
And all the flowers of all the city ways
Are laughing, with Yvette, this day of days.
Laugh, with Yvette? But I must first forget,
Before I laugh, that I have heard Yvette.
For the flowers fade before her: see, the light
Dies out of that poor cheek, and leaves it white;
And a chill shiver takes me as she sings
The pity of unpitied human things;
A woe beyond all weeping, tears that trace
The very wrinkles of the last grimace.
Scheme | X AABBAACCDDAAAA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10110 1101011 1011101111 110101101011 011101011 01010110101 1101011111 1101111101 0111111101 10101010101 1111110111 0011011111 01011101 0101110111 0101010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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