Analysis of The Death Of The Poor
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
It is Death, alas, persuades us to keep on living:
the goal of life and the only hope we have,
like an elixir, rousing, intoxicating, giving
the strength to march on towards the grave:
through the frost and snow and storm-wind, look
it’s the vibrant light on our black horizon:
the fabulous inn, written of in the book,
where one can eat, and sleep and sit oneself down:
it’s an Angel, who holds in his magnetic beams,
sleep and the gift of ecstatic dreams,
who makes the bed where the poor and naked lie:
it’s the glory of the Gods, the mystic granary,
it’s the poor man’s purse, his ancient country,
it’s the doorway opening on an unknown sky!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101111110 01110010111 1101010010010 011110101 101010111 101011101010 01001101001 1111010111 111011010101 100110101 11011010101 10101010101 1011111010 10110011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 652 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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