Analysis of Criterion
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
When you are mixed with many I descry
A single light, and judge the rest thereby.
But when you are alone with me, why then,
I quite forget all women and all men.
| Scheme | ABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111011 0101010111 1111011111 1101110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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