Analysis of Faun's Head
Arthur Rimbaud 1854 (Charleville-Mézières) – 1891 (Marseille)
Among the foliage, green casket flecked with gold;
in the uncertain foliage that blossoms
with gorgeous flowers where sleeps the kiss,
vivid, and bursting through the sumptuous tapestry,
a startled faun shows his two eyes
and bites the crimson flowers with his white teeth.
Stained and ensanguined like mellow wine,
his mouth bursts out in laughter beneath the branches.
And when he has fled - like a squirrel -
his laughter still vibrates on every leaf,
and you can see, startled by a bullfinch,
the Golden Kiss of the Wood,
gathering itself together again.
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Metre | 01010110111 0001010110 110101101 100101010100 01011111 01010101111 1011101 111101001010 011111010 11011011001 011110101 0101101 1000101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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