Analysis of Unthrift
Coventry Patmore 1823 (Woodford, London) – 1896 (Lymington)
Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing men cannot choose but pay,
How she has cheapen'd paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,
Which, spent with due, respective thrift,
Had made brutes men, and men divine.
Scheme | ABABCDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 11010111 10111011 10110111 1111010 110110101 11010101 11110101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 307 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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