Analysis of The Widow's Mites
Richard Crashaw 1612 (London) – 1649 (Loreto, Marche)
Two mites, two drops, yet all her house and land,
Fall from a steady heart, though trembling hand :
The other's wanton wealth foams high, and brave ;
The other cast away, she only gave.
Scheme | AABB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111110101 11010111001 0101011101 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 190 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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