Analysis of Nor Look Behind
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
Remember Lot's wife
How like a woman in a barren field
No stronger than a flower
Not born in shame
Like the deaf adder
Adding fuel to the flame
Of virtue
Of weak minds
Of blame
In naked beauty more
The most when unadorned
Spare not nor look behind
Nor fear
Nor spare
The scorned.
| Scheme | ABCDCDEFDGHIJKH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 01011 1101000101 1101010 1101 10110 1010101 110 111 11 010101 01101 111101 11 11 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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