Analysis of Madrigal #1.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
What needs it, then, we stand so long a-gazing,
And do not our lips mingle,
Since our hearts, so long single,
Have married as if in a dream amazing?
Our lips in such a joy should follow suit,
And on each other feed as on Love's fruit.
| Scheme | ABBACC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Heroic Sestet |
| Metre | 11111111010 01110110 11011110 11011001010 10101011101 0111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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