Analysis of Re-adjustment
Clive Staples Lewis 1898 (Clive Staples Lewis Belfast) – 1963 (Oxford)
I thought there would be a grave beauty, a sunset splendour
In being the last of one's kind: a topmost moment as one watched
The huge wave curving over Atlantis, the shrouded barge
Turning away with wounded Arthur, or Ilium burning.
Now I see that, all along, I was assuming a posterity
Of gentle hearts: someone, however distant in the depths of time,
Who could pick up our signal, who could understand a story. There won't be.
Between the new Hembidae and us who are dying, already
There rises a barrier across which no voice can ever carry,
For devils are unmaking language. We must let that alone forever.
Uproot your loves, one by one, with care, from the future,
And trusting to no future, receive the massive thrust
And surge of the many-dimensional timeless rays converging
On this small, significant dew drop, the present that mirrors all.
Scheme | AXXBCXC CAAAXBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110110011 010011110110111 01110100100101 1001110101110 11111011101000100 11011101000111 111110101101010111 01011011110010 11001000111111010 1101110111101010 0111111111010 0101110010101 0110100100101010 1110100110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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