Analysis of Fatal Love

Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721



Poor Hal caught his death standing under a spout
Expecting till midnight when Nan would come out;
But fatal his patience, as cruel the dame,
And cursed was the weather that quench'd the man's flame.
Whoe'er thou art that reads these moral lines,
Make love at home, and go to bed betimes.


Scheme AABBCC
Poetic Form Sestain
Metre 11111101001 0101111111 11011011001 01101011011 111111101 111101111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 290
Words 54
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 226
Words per stanza (avg) 52
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Matthew Prior

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