Analysis of Heliograph
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
(Self-Portrait) Omens and Astrology. A desert flat and undisturbed, stupid and forlorn. Sunless. a caravan of failures. Pons Asinorum and the Feast of the Ass and revolt against standardized American childhood.
War and Violence.
Catapults and Torches and the first stray thrusts of Sun into the Soul. Bombardments and Bordels. Heraldry and High Walls. Too rigid to crumble but not too strong to fracture.
Post-War Depression.
Extensive swamps formed by alcohol stagnating in the brain. Away from the gregariousness of the elephant towards the singleness of the hawk.
Omens and Astrology.
From Fog to Sun. Leaves and Inflorescence. Four columns of red marble. The scorification method. Love-Madness. Torchbearer and the complete entrance of Sun into Soul. Sunfire.
Boa Constrictor
through the thick grass. Red Skeletons. Silver Scar by Silver Image and Cicatrix. Reculer pour mieux avancer. The beaten forces were at last withdrawn safely into the Island.
The Primitive Method
of strengthening the soul by dropping red-hot sunstones into it. Rimbaud and Van Gogh. Counter-Attack. Turbulence. Chariot of the Sun.
The Mad Queen.
The violent state of fusion. Her Sun tattoed on my back. The bold progressive march to the Sun. Multiplication of Madness. anarchism. I lay siege to the Sun.
Scheme | XXA BX XX AX XB XB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101000100010100110001101011011001101001011001001 10100 10001000111110101010011000111101101111110 11010 010111101000101101101000101101 1000100 1111101110111001101101000110110111 10010 101111001011101001111101010011011001010 010010 11000111011101110111001100100101 011 0100111001111101010110100101101111101 |
Characters | 1,279 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 39 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 80 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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