Analysis of What Needeth These Threnning Words and Wasted Wind?
David McKee Wright 1869 – 1928
What needeth these threnning words and wasted wind?
All this cannot make me restore my prey.
To rob your good, iwis, is not my mind,
Nor causeless your fair hand did I display.
Let love be judge or else whom next we meet
That may both hear what you and I can say:
She took from me an heart, and I a glove from her.
Let us see now if th'one be worth th'other.
| Scheme | ABABCBDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110101 1110110111 111111111 111111101 1111111111 1111110111 111111010110 11111111111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 359 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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