Analysis of Music
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Music, like an ocean, often carries me away!
Through the ether far,
or under a canopy of mist, I set sail
for my pale star.
Breasting the waves, my lungs swollen
like a ship’s canvas,
night veils from me the long rollers,
I ride their backs:
I sense all a suffering vessel’s passions
vibrating within me:
while fair winds or the storm’s convulsions
on the immense deep
cradle me. Or else flat calm, vast mirror there
of my despair!
Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIHJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101010101 10101 110010011111 1111 10011110 10110 11110110 1111 11101001010 100011 111101010 10011 10111111101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 433 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 336 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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