Analysis of Unattainable, The
Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles
Who had captured his manly heart,
From the fairy who danced for the front-row swells
To the maiden who tooled her cart;
But one face as fair as a cloudless dawn
Caught my eye, and I said, "Who's this?"
"Oh, that," he replied, with a skilful yawn,
"Is the girl I couldn't kiss."
Her face was the best in the book, no doubt,
But I hastily turned the leaf,
For my friend had let his cigar go out,
And I knew I had bared his grief:
For caresses we win and smiles we gain
Yield only a transient bliss,
And we're all of us prone to sigh in vain
For "the girl we couldn't kiss."
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101011 11101101 10101110111 10101101 1111110101 11101111 111011011 1011101 0110100111 11100101 1111110111 01111111 1010110111 1100101 0111111101 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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