Analysis of Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?
Christopher Marlowe 1564 (Canterbury, Kent) – 1593 (Deptford, Kent)
It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;
And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows; let it suffice
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
Scheme | AABB CCXXDD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111010101111 110110111 1111110101 1111110101 010101101 1111010101 0101111101 11011101101 1101000111 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 416 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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