Analysis of Healfast, Healfast, Ye Hero Wounds
Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
''Healfast, healfast, ye hero wounds;
O knight, be quickly strong!
Beloved strife
For fame and life,
Oh, tarry not too long!''
| Scheme | ABCCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Lanturne (40%) |
| Metre | 111101 111101 011 1101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 130 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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