Analysis of Love Without Hope
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher
Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter,
So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly
Singing about her head, as she rode by.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10111101110 11111101110 11001010101 1001011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 190 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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