Analysis of The Price
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Pity all faithless women who have loved. None knows
How much it hurts a woman to do wrong to love.
The mother who has felt the child within her move,
Shall she forget her child, and those ecstatic throes?
Then pity faithless women who have loved. These have
Murdered within them something born out of their pain.
These mothers of the child whom they have loved and slain
May not so much as lay the child within a grave.
| Scheme | AXXA XBBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111011111 111101011111 010111010101 110101010101 11011011111 100111011111 110101111101 111111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 421 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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