Analysis of A Caution To Poets
Matthew Arnold 1822 (Laleham) – 1888 (Liverpool)
What poets feel not, when they make,
A pleasure in creating,
The world, in its turn, will not take
Pleasure in contemplating
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011111 0100010 01011111 100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 121 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
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