But I love the breathless rush of the anapests in the octave, the scrambling of it that so perfectly reflects the scene. I was actually wondering whether this were not a deliberate nod to XJ Kennedy's wonderful "Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought"--which also has very free meter in the octave, as opposed to the strict meter of the sestet. And I love the headless line at the end here, which perfectly captures that dawning of realization (or, with its nod to Keats, surmise).
I found this so amazingly vivid, that I scarcely even want to look at the image of the painting itself.
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