Analysis of Unwelcome
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861 (London) – 1907
|WE were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East.
O, still grew the hearts that were beating so fast,
The loudest voice was still.
The jest died away on our lips as thy passed,
And the rays of July struck chill.
The cups of red wine turned pale on the board,
The white bread black as soot.
The hound forgot the hand of her lord,
She fell down at his foot.
Low let me lie, where the dead dog lies,
Ere I sit me down again at a feast,
When there passes a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East.
Scheme | abaB cdcd efef abaB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10110101010101 0011101101 1111010101001 001111101 11101101011 010111 011011101111 0011111 0111111101 011111 010101101 111111 111110111 1111101101 1110010101001 001111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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