Analysis of Let Them Go Their Way
The daily world of care
Was never yours to mend:
On others, weight to bear
To change their means or end.
No, not though what befell
Was less than what was right.
If blindness suits them well,
Why make them use your sight?
And should they not beseech
That aid your love could give,
Your love must wisdom teach:
Their life’s not yours to live.
So love them, if you may,
And let them go their way.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111 110111 110111 111111 111101 111111 110111 111111 011101 111111 111101 111111 111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 383 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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