Analysis of Unnatural Love
Allen Tate 1899 (Winchester) – 1979 (Nashville)
Landor, not that I doubt your word,
That you had strove with none
At seventy-five and had deferred
To nature and art alone;
It is rather that at thirty-two
From us I see them part
After they served, so sweetly, you-
Yet nature has no heart:
Brother and sister are estranged
By his ambitious lies
For he his sister Helen much deranged-
Outraged her, and put coppers on her eyes.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 111111 110010101 1100101 111011101 111111 10111101 110111 10010101 110101 1111010101 100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 296 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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