Analysis of Lines: Written In 'Letters Of An Italian Nun And An English Gentleman'
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
'Away, away, your fleeting arts
May now betray some simpler hearts;
And you will smile at their believing,
And they shall weep at your deceiving.'
ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING, ADDRESSED TO MISS ---.
Dear, simple girl, those flattering arts,
From which thou'dst guard frail female hearts,
Exist but in imagination,--
Mere phantoms of thine own creation;
For he who views that witching grace,
That perfect form, that lovely face,
With eyes admiring, oh! believe me,
He never wishes to deceive thee:
Once in thy polish'd mirror glance,
Thou'lt there descry that elegance
Which from our sex demands such praises,
But envy in the other raises:
Then he who tells thee of thy beauty,
Believe me, only does his duty:
Ah! fly not from the candid youth;
It is not flattery,--'tis truth.
Scheme | AABB X AACCDDEEXXFFEEGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 110111001 011111010 011111010 10100100111 110111001 1111111 01100010 110111010 11111101 10111101 110101011 110101011 10110101 1111100 1110101110 110001010 111111110 011101110 11110101 11110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 769 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 16 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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