Analysis of Lix. _love is a refiner's fire._
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Caprese near Arezzo) – 1564 (Rome)
Non più ch' 'l foco il fabbro.
It is with fire that blacksmiths iron subdue
Unto fair form, the image of their thought:
Nor without fire hath any artist wrought
Gold to its utmost purity of hue.
Nay, nor the unmatched phoenix lives anew,
Unless she burn: if then I am distraught
By fire, I may to better life be brought
Like those whom death restores nor years undo.
The fire whereof I speak, is my great cheer;
Such power it hath to renovate and raise
Me who was almost numbered with the dead;
And since by nature fire doth find its sphere
Soaring aloft, and I am all ablaze,
Heavenward with it my flight must needs be sped.
Scheme | A BCCBBCCBADEADE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111 11110111001 1011010111 10110110101 111110011 1100110101 0111111101 11011110111 1111011101 0101111111 1101111001 111110101 01110101111 1001011101 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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