Analysis of Lines In A Flyleaf Of 'Christabel'
William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)
Inhospitably hast thou entertained,
O Poet, us the bidden to thy board,
Whom in mid-feast, and while our thousand mouths
Are one laudation of the festal cheer,
Thou from thy table dost dismiss, unfilled.
Yet loudlier thee than many a lavish host
We praise, and oftener thy repast half-served
Than many a stintless banquet, prodigally
Through satiate hours prolonged; nor praise less well
Because with tongues thou hast not cloyed, and lips
That mourn the parsimony of affluent souls,
And mix the lamentation with the laud.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1101010111 10110110101 1111011 1111010101 1111100101 1101001111 11001101 1110011111 0111111101 11010011001 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 422 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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