Analysis of And is love very strong where honour rules?
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
And is love very strong where honour rules?
Would the world ever speak of Lancelot's love
Or Tristram's love had they put honour first?
What would you think if Guinevere had knelt
And begged for kisses and had begged in vain?
Should she be constant had she been refused
Or would she laugh and turn to love elsewhere?
But Joseph is a hero nowadays
And young Paolo, the Italian blood,
Rather too rash and uncontrollable.
Lovers who are not free should sigh and part—
Lovers, you call them—and not free to love:
They may be wives or husbands, businessmen,
Saints even: they're not lovers. After all
I'd rather be a lover than a saint.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKBLMN |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 011101111 101101111 11111111 11111111 0111001101 1111011101 111101111 110101010 011000101 101100100 1011111101 1011101111 111111010 1101110101 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 643 |
| Words | 116 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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