Analysis of Invocation to the Mad Queen
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
I would you were the hollow ship
fashioned to bear the cargo of my love
the unrelenting glove
hurled in defiance at our blackest world
or that great banner mad unfurled
the poet plants upon the hill of time
or else amphora for the gold of life
liquid and naked as a virgin wife.
Yourself the prize
I gird with Fire
The Great White Ruin
Of my Desire.
I burn to gold
fierce and unerring as a conquering sword
I burn to gold
fierce and undaunted as a lion lord
seeking your Bed
and leave to them the
burning of the dead.
| Scheme | abbccdeefghgIjIjklk |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11100101 101101111 00101 10010110101 11110101 0101010111 1110010111 1001010101 0101 11110 01110 11010 1111 101101001 1111 1001010101 1011 01110 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 507 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 413 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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