Analysis of The Glove Of The Live Lady.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



Her glove! It was rare Ben who sung it,
That best of gloves of the lady dead!
Another's here, as one had flung it
In anger at her lover's head.
Was it but this that it was made for,
One of a pair perhaps he'd paid for,
To have it favored in this fashion?
But gloves are gloves, and passion's passion!
And he, it may be, liked her better
For her rich anger as she threw it:
'Twas worth a glove to so upset her
And know he had the power to do it,
So he might kiss the white hands after
Her passion turned to tears and laughter!


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Poetic Form
Metre 011111111 111110101 010111111 01010101 111111111 110101111 111100110 11110110 011111010 101101111 110111010 0111010111 111101110 010111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 520
Words 111
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 397
Words per stanza (avg) 109
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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