Analysis of The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three
Tristan Tzara 1896 (Moinești) – 1963 (Paris)
where we live the flowers of the clocks catch fire and the plumes encircle the brightness in the distant sulphur morning the cows lick the salt lilies
my son
my son
let us always shuffle through the colour of the world
which looks bluer than the subway and astronomy
we are too thin
we have no mouth
our legs are stiff and knock together
our faces are formeless like the stars
crystal points without strength burned basilica
mad : the zigzags crack
telephone
bite the rigging liquefy
the arc
climb
astral
memory
towards the north through its double fruit
like raw flesh
hunger fire blood
Scheme | aBBcdefghijklmnodpqr |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111010101110001010010001010100110110 11 11 11110101101 111010100100 1111 1111 1011101010 101011101 10101110100 10101 10 101010 01 1 10 100 010111101 111 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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