Analysis of On The Aphorism
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
'L'Amitié est l'Amour sans ailes.'
FRIENDSHIP, as some sage poet sings,
Is chasten'd Love, depriv'd of wings,
Without all wish or power to wander;
Less volatile, but not less tender:
Yet says the proverbs'Sly and slow
'Love creeps, even where he cannot go;'
To clip his pinions then is vain,
His old propensities remain;
And she, who years beyond fifteen,
Has counted twenty, may have seen
How rarely unplum'd Love will stay;
He flies notbut he coolly walks away.
| Scheme | XAABBCCDD EEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011011 10111101 11010111 0111110110 110011110 11010101 111011101 1111111 11010001 01110101 11010111 1101111 1111110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 476 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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