Analysis of Beauty Always Has The Final Word



Beauty always has the final word.
Wherever it may sound, it will be heard
Above whatever clamor ugliness
Might raise, just as light can never be less
Than dark. For ugliness can have no power
Ever to tinge the soul. The smallest flower
Blooming will defy a barren plain,
The smallest joy transfigure any pain.

But where there is no flower? All around
Is barrenness, no beauty to be found?
Look out to the horizon. You will see
Unwounded sky, a blue serenity.
And if the sky is tear-choked, bowed with scars,
Beyond it rise the swift renewing stars.


Scheme AAXXBBCC DDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 10110101 0101111111 011010100 1111111011 11110011110 10110101010 101010101 01011101 1111110101 11110111 1110010111 11010100 0101111111 0111010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 535
Words 99
Sentences 9
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 217
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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