Analysis of Beauty And The Artist.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475 (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Caprese near Arezzo) – 1564 (Rome)
Al cor di zolfo.
A heart of flaming sulphur, flesh of tow,
Bones of dry wood, a soul without a guide
To curb the fiery will, the ruffling pride
Of fierce desires that from the passions flow;
A sightless mind that weak and lame doth go
Mid snares and pitfalls scattered far and wide;--
What wonder if the first chance brand applied
To fuel massed like this should make it glow?
Add beauteous art, which, brought with us from heaven,
Will conquer nature;--so divine a power
Belongs to him who strives with every nerve.
If I was made for art, from childhood given
A prey for burning beauty to devour,
I blame the mistress I was born to serve.
Scheme | A BCCBBCCBDEADEA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111 0111010111 1111010101 110100101001 11010110101 011110111 110110101 1101011101 1101111111 1111111110 11010101010 01111111001 1111111110 01110101010 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 16, 2023
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