Analysis of By Eve'ry Sweet Tradition of True Hearts
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
By ev'ry sweet tradition of true hearts,
Graven by Time, in love with his own lore;
By all old martyrdoms and antique smarts,
Wherein Love died to be alive the more;
Yea, by the sad impression on the shore,
Left by the drown'd Leander, to endear
That coast for ever, where the billow's roar
Moaneth for pity in the Poet's ear;
By Hero's faith, and the foreboding tear
That quench'd her brand's last twinkle in its fall;
By Sappho's leap, and the low rustling fear
That sigh'd around her flight; I swear by all,
The world shall find such pattern in my act,
As if Love's great examples still were lack'd.
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Metre | 111010111 1011011111 11110011 0111110101 1101010101 1101010101 111101011 111000101 1101000101 1101110011 111001101 1101011111 0111110011 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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