Analysis of A Sophistical Argument
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
Great crane o'ertopping the delicate trees
Why do you seem so fair,
Swaying and raising your load with ease
High in the misty air?
You are a wonder of pearl and grey
Lifting strong arms to the sky.
Have you a meaning that's lovely, pray?
Why are you lovely, why?
I have a friend with a theory strange,
Thriftless in unity,
None of my reasons avails to change.
'Beauty is truth,' says she.
Are you all ugliness, Fair-to-the-sense?
You are a symbol drear.
Though I should forfeit mine innocence,
Yet must I hold you dear.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101001 111111 100101111 100101 110101101 1011101 110101101 111101 110110101 10100 11110111 101111 1111001101 110101 111101100 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 527 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 401 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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