Analysis of The Unbeloved

Charles Lamb 1775 (Inner Temple, London) – 1834 (Edmonton, London)



Not a woman, child, or man in
All this isle, that loves thee, C--ng.
Fools, whom gentle manners sway,
May incline to C--gh,
Princes, who old ladies love,
Of the Doctor may approve,
Chancery lads do not abhor
Their chatty, childish Chancellor.
In Liverpool some virtues strike,
And little Van's beneath dislike.
Tho, if I were to be dead for 't,
I could never love thee, H--t:
(Every man must have his way)
Other grey adulterers may.
But thou unamiable object,-
Dear to neither prince, nor subject;-
Veriest, meanest scab, for pelf
Fastning on the skin of Guelph,
Thou, thou must, surely, loathe thyself.

R. et R.


Scheme XXABBBXXCCDDAAEEBBB X
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 10101110 11111111 1110101 101111 1011101 1010101 10011101 11010100 0101101 01010101 111011111 11101111 10011111 10101001 11110 11101101 110111 110111 1111011 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 602
Words 111
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 19, 1
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 231
Words per stanza (avg) 54
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature". more…

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