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


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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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Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. more…

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