Analysis of Assassins

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



Assassins find accomplices. Man's merit
Has found him three, the hawk, the hound, the ferret.


Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 01010100110 11110101010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 100
Words 17
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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