Analysis of A Meaning Learnt
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I'm not his wife. I am his paramour:
His wayside love, picked up in journeying:
Rose of the hedgerows; fragrant, till he fling
Me down beside the ditch, a drooped thing
Some country boy may stick into his hat.
A paramour has no more use than that.
| Scheme | ABBBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 111110100 110110111 110101011 1101110111 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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