Analysis of A Slice Of Wedding Cake
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls
Married impossible men?
Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out,
And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten.
Repeat 'impossible men': not merely rustic,
Foul-tempered or depraved
(Dramatic foils chosen to show the world
How well women behave, and always have behaved).
Impossible men: idle, illiterate,
Self-pitying, dirty, sly,
For whose appearance even in City parks
Excuses must be made to casual passers-by.
Has God's supply of tolerable husbands
Fallen, in fact, so low?
Or do I always over-value woman
At the expense of man?
Do I?
It might be so.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXXCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 1001001 101101111 010001011111 010100111010 110101 0101101101 11100101101 01001100100 1100101 11010100101 0101111100101 11011100010 100111 1111101010 100111 11 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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