Analysis of Punctilio
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861 (London) – 1907
O LET me be in loving nice,
Dainty, fine, and o’er precise,
That I may charm my charmàd dear
As tho’ I felt a secret fear
To lose what never can be lost,—
Her faith who still delights me most!
So shall I be more than true,
Ever in my ageing new.
So dull habit shall not be
Wrongly call’d Fidelity.
| Scheme | AABBCDEEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11110101 1010101 11111111 11110101 11110111 01110111 1111111 100111 1110111 1010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 305 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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