Analysis of The Foreign Land
Coventry Patmore 1823 (Woodford, London) – 1896 (Lymington)
A woman is a foreign land,
Of which, though there he settle young,
A man will ne'er quite understand
The customs, politics, and tongue.
The foolish hie them post-haste through,
See fashions odd, and prospects fair,
Learn of the language, "How d'ye do,"
And go and brag they have been there.
The most for leave to trade apply,
For once, at Empire's seat, her heart,
Then get what knowledge ear and eye
Glean chancewise in the life-long mart.
And certain others, few and fit,
Attach them to the Court, and see
The Country's best, its accent hit,
And partly sound its polity.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 01010101 11111101 0111101 0101001 01011111 11010101 110101111 01011111 01111101 111100101 11110101 1100111 01010101 01110101 01011011 01011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 440 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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