Analysis of To A Proud Beauty ('A Valentine')
Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833 – 1870
Though I have loved you well, I ween,
And you, too, fancied me,
Your heart hath too divided been
A constant heart to be.
And like the gay and youthful knight,
Who loved and rode away,
Your fleeting fancy takes a flight
With every fleeting day.
So let it be as you propose,
Tho' hard the struggle be ;
'Tis fitter far—that goodness knows !—
Since we cannot agree.
Let's quarrel once for all, my sweet,
Forget the past—and then
I'll kiss each pretty girl I meet,
While you'll flirt with the men.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EBEBFAFA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 011101 11110101 010111 01010101 110101 11010101 1100101 11111101 110101 11011101 111001 11011111 010101 11110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 493 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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