Analysis of Beauty.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



Her beauty is the bourne thought cannot pass;
And the angel of the heart's intelligence,
Young Love, might deem that boundary infinite,
So he within the glamour of her eyes,
As in some ether too thin to be weighed,
Might breathe for ever.


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Poetic Form
Metre 0101011101 00101010100 11111100100 1101010101 1011011111 11110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 241
Words 45
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 188
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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