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 |
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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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