Analysis of The Warner
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Every man worth the name
has a yellow snake in his soul,
seated as on a throne, saying
if he cries: ‘I want to!’: ‘No!’
Lock eyes with the fixed gaze
of Nixies or Satyresses, says
the Tooth: ‘Think of your duty!’
Make children, or plant trees,
polish verses, or marble frieze,
the Tooth says: ‘Tonight, where will you be?’
Whatever he likes to consider
there’s never a moment passing
a man can’t hear the warning
of that insufferable Viper.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHHGICCI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101 10101011 10110110 1111111 111011 11111 0111110 110111 10101101 011011111 10111010 11001010 0111010 110100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 455 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 334 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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