Analysis of Lament Of An Icarus
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Lovers of whores don’t care,
happy, calm and replete:
But my arms are incomplete,
grasping the empty air.
Thanks to stars, incomparable ones,
that blaze in the depths of the skies,
all my destroyed eyes
see, are the memories of suns.
I look, in vain, for beginning and end
of the heavens’ slow revolve:
Under an unknown eye of fire, I ascend
feeling my wings dissolve.
And, scorched by desire for the beautiful,
I will not know the bliss,
of giving my name to that abyss,
that knows my tomb and funeral.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 101001 1111001 100101 111010001 11001101 11011 11010011 1101101001 1010101 101011110101 101101 01101010100 111101 110111101 11110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 390 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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