Analysis of Defiance
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
Catch her and hold her if you can--
See, she defies you with her fan,
Shuts, opens, and then holds it spread
In threatening guise over your head.
Ah! why did you not start before
She reached the porch and closed the door?
Simpleton! Will you never learn
That girls and time will not return;
Of each you should have made the most;
Once gone, they are forever lost.
In vain your knuckles knock your brow,
In vain will you remember how
Like a slim brook the gamesome maid
Sparkled, and ran into the shade.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010111 11011101 11001111 010011011 11111101 11010101 111101 11011101 11111101 11110101 01110111 01110101 1011011 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 391 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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