Analysis of The Web Of Eros
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell 1887 (Scarborough) – 1964 (Weedon Lois)
Within your magic web of hair, lies furled
The fire and splendour of the ancient world;
The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;
The songs that turned to gold the evening air
When all the stars of heaven sang for joy.
The flames that burnt the cloud-high city Troy.
The mænad fire of spring on the cold earth;
The myrrh-lit flame that gave both death and birth
To the soul Phoenix; and the star-bright shower
That came to Danaë in her brazen tower...
Within your magic web of hair lies furled
The fire and splendour of the ancient world.
Scheme | AAbbccddeeAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011111 0100110101 0111010111 0111110101 1101110111 0111011101 01110111011 0111111101 10110001110 11110001010 0111011111 0100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 425 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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