Analysis of La Figlia Che Piange
T. S. Eliot 1888 (St. Louis, Missouri, United States) – 1965 (Kensington)
O quam te memorem virgo
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair—
Lean on a garden urn—
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair—
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise—
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive resentment in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
So I would have had him leave,
So I would have had her stand and grieve,
So he would have left
As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised,
As the mind deserts the body it has used.
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
And I wonder how they should have been together!
I should have lost a gesture and a pose.
Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon's repose.
Scheme | X ABACBCA DDEFFXEGG HIJJHKIK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111110 1101010101 110101 1101011 11101110101 1110101 10100010011 11101011 1111111 111110101 11111 1011010101 10110010111 111 1101000101 1111101 100110101101 11011101010 0110010101 10101010 0110010011110 011011111010 1111010001 0111101 010100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 966 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 9, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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