Analysis of SHadowings

Samuel Greenberg 1893 (New York City) – 1917 (New York City)



The marble walls held the dim sky sHadows
That were strangly woven in grays
Silhouette set the scepters roveing
Into the half mediums of real
'Lumination, music set qualities
Above sentiment. the dreamer called
The orient from illusions feignly proof
Form but dimly prominento colour
The night lamps fought the powerful sHade
Mythology helped the modern life upbraid
O sunset o golden, thou who tends
The farthest heavenly width to rest
From observation, the elegy's lore
Hath set memory, o'er unmersion's quest,


Scheme ABCDEFGHIIJKHK
Poetic Form
Metre 010110111 1011001 011011 010110011 1101100 011000101 010101011 111011 011101001 0100101011 11110111 010100111 1010011 111001011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 507
Words 84
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 421
Words per stanza (avg) 82
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Samuel Greenberg

Samuel Bernard Greenberg was an Austrian-American Jewish poet and artist. Greenberg grew up in poverty on the Lower East Side of New York City and spent the last years of his life in and out of charity hospitals. He died of tuberculosis in the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island. What little mainstream critical attention he has received has arisen through debate over the poet Hart Crane's re-writing of several Greenberg poems, most notably "Conduct", into "Emblems of Conduct" by Crane. more…

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