Analysis of On Marriage.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Whom Love has joined no man may put asunder,
And he has never joined those who can part:
Marriage is this, no more, howe'er priests moan;
The rest is words, mere words, and custom's vapour
The heart will brush aside as easily
As fancy paints a picture.
| Scheme | ABCADA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111010 0111011111 1011111011 011111011 0111011100 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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