Analysis of Mould and Vase [GREEK POTTERY OF AREZZO.]
Edith Wharton 1862 (New York City) – 1937 (Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt)
HERE in the jealous hollow of the mould,
Faint, light-eluding, as templed in the breast
Of some rose-vaulted lotus, see the best
The artist had - the vision that unrolled
Its flying sequence till completion's hold
Caught the wild round and bade the dancers rest -
The mortal lip on the immortal pressed
One instant, ere the blindness and the cold.
And there the vase: immobile, exiled, tame,
The captives of fulfillment link their round,
Foot-heavy on the inelastic ground,
How different, yet how enviously the same!
Dishonoring the kinship that they claim,
As here the written word the inner sound.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDDCCD |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 1001010101 1101011001 1111010101 010101011 11010111 1011010101 0101100101 1101010001 010101011 0101010111 110100101 110011100001 101111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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