Analysis of On Tasso In Prison (Eugène Delacroix’s Painting)
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
The poet in his cell, unkempt and sick,
who crushes underfoot a manuscript,
measures, with a gaze that horror has inflamed,
the stair of madness where his soul was maimed.
The intoxicating laughter that fills his prison
with the absurd and the strange, swamps his reason.
Doubt surrounds him, and ridiculous fear,
hideous and multiform, circles near.
That genius pent up in a foul sty,
those spectres, those grimaces, the cries,
whirling, in a swarm, about his hair,
that dreamer, whom his lodging’s terrors bare,
such are your emblems, Soul, singer of songs obscure,
whom Reality suffocates behind four walls!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110101 11001010 10101110101 0111011111 001001011110 10010011110 1011001001 10001101 110110011 11110001 100010111 1101110101 111101101101 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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