Analysis of Call It a Good Marriage
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Call it a good marriage -
For no one ever questioned
Her warmth, his masculinity,
Their interlocking views;
Except one stray graphologist
Who frowned in speculation
At her h's and her s's,
His p's and w's.
Though few would still subscribe
To the monogamic axiom
That strife below the hip-bones
Need not estrange the heart,
Call it a good marriage:
More drew those two together,
Despite a lack of children,
Than pulled them apart.
Call it a good marriage:
They never fought in public,
They acted circumspectly
And faced the world with pride;
Thus the hazards of their love-bed
Were none of our damned business -
Till as jurymen we sat on
Two deaths by suicide.
Scheme | Abxcbdxc xxxeAxde Axxfxxxf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 1111010 0110100 11001 01111 110010 10100010 110100 111101 101100 1101011 110101 110110 1111010 0101110 11101 110110 1101010 1101 010111 10101111 01110110 111111 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 650 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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