Analysis of The Painter on Silk
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
There was a man
Who made his living
By painting roses
Upon silk.
He sat in an upper chamber
And painted,
And the noises of the street
Meant nothing to him.
When he heard bugles, and fifes, and drums,
He thought of red, and yellow, and white roses
Bursting in the sunshine,
And smiled as he worked.
He thought only of roses,
And silk.
When he could get no more silk
He stopped painting
And only thought
Of roses.
The day the conquerors
Entered the city,
The old man
Lay dying.
He heard the bugles and drums,
And wished he could paint the roses
Bursting into sound.
Scheme | ABCD XXXX ECXX CDDBXC XXABECX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
Metre | 1101 11110 11010 011 11011010 010 0010101 11011 111100101 11110100110 10001 01111 1110110 01 1111111 1110 0101 110 010100 10010 011 110 1101001 01111010 10011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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