Analysis of Upon Ford's Two Tragedies
Richard Crashaw 1612 (London) – 1649 (Loreto, Marche)
Love's Sacrifice, and the Broken Heart.
Thou cheat'st us, Ford, mak'st one seem two by art ;
What is love's sacrifice but the broken heart ?
Scheme | A AA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11000101 111111111111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 146 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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