Analysis of The Bad Monk
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
On the great walls of ancient cloisters were nailed
Murals displaying Truth the saint,
Whose effect, reheating the pious entrails
Brought to an austere chill a warming paint.
In the times when Christ was seeded around,
More than one illustrious monk, today unknown
Took for a studio the funeral grounds
And glorified Death as the one way shown.
—My soul is a tomb, an empty confine
Since eternity I scour and I reside;
Nothing hangs on the walls of this hideous sty.
O lazy monk! When will I see
The living spectacle of my misery,
The work of my hands and the love of my eyes?
Translated by William A. Sigler
Submitted by Ryan McGuire
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXX CCX X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111101001 10010101 101101010 1110110101 0011111001 111010010101 1101001001 010110111 1110111001 101001100101 101101111001 11011111 01010011100 01111001111 0101100100 01011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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