Analysis of Mist And Rain
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Late autumns, winters, spring-times steeped in mud,
anaesthetizing seasons! You I praise, and love
for so enveloping my heart and brain
in vaporous shrouds, in sepulchres of rain.
In this vast landscape where chill south winds play,
where long nights hoarsen the shrill weather-vane,
it opens wide its raven’s wings, my soul,
freer than in times of mild renewal.
Nothing’s sweeter to my heart, full of sorrows,
on which the hoar-frost fell in some past time,
O pallid seasons, queens of our clime,
than the changeless look of your pale shadows,
- except, two by two, to lay our grief to rest
in some moonless night, on a perilous bed.
Scheme | ABCCDCEFGHHGIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011101 11011101 1101001101 0110111 011111111 111101101 1101110111 1010111010 10101111110 1101110111 1101011101 10111111 011111110111 0111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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