Analysis of Song.—When others saw thee
Louisa Stuart Costello 1799 – 1870
When others saw thee gay and vain,
And saw my weakness too,—
A willing captive in thy chain,
Nor doubt nor care I knew.
When others saw thy faults too well,
And bade my heart beware,
I linger'd in thy beauty's spell,
And found no danger there.
Even when I saw how false and cold
Thou couldst to others be,
My trusting heart would not be told
Thou wert untrue to me.
Like one whom lovely fruits allure
To death and misery*,
I find my fate admits no cure,
And know the truth—to die!
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGFGX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 011101 01010011 111111 11011111 011101 1100111 011101 101111101 111101 11011111 110111 11110101 110100 11110111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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