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.


Scheme ABACDEDEFGFG
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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Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944. more…

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