Analysis of Love #2.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The small, white, soft hand of a maid can shoot
A bolt will bar a giant's way; and, oh!
The dreamy Love is a unique magician,
That, tender as the maiden's lily hand,
Is yet as sinewy retentive as
The bolt that bars the giant's way.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111110111 0111010101 01011001010 110101101 11110011 01110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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