Analysis of Broken Vase
Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)
The vase where this verbena is dying
was cracked by a blow from a fan.
It must have barely brushed it,
for it made no sound.
But the slight wound,
biting into the crystal day by day,
surely, invisibly crept
slowly all around it.
The clear water leaked out drop by drop.
The flowers' sap was exhausted.
Still no one suspected anything.
Don't touch! It's broken.
Thus often does the hand we love,
barely touching the heart, wound it.
Then the heart cracks by itself
and the flower of its love dies.
Still intact in the eyes of the world,
it feels its wound, narrow and deep,
grow and softly cry.
It's broken. Don't touch!
Scheme | AXBC CXXB XXAX XBXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0111010110 11101101 1111011 11111 1011 1001010111 1011 101011 011011111 01011010 11101010 11110 11010111 10100111 1011101 00101111 101001101 11111001 10101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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