Re: My child, an offspring of a forbidden love you are, of love that had no right

Originally Posted by
Marina Gaidar
Again, speaking about the letter of a mother to her child. "My child, an offspring of a forbidden love you are, of love that had no right to befall and stood no chance to last". Does it sound ok taking into account that it should be archaic?
The beginning is OK, I guess. "My child, you are the offspring of a forbidden love ..."
If you want to make it properly archaic, maybe "thou art" instead of "you are".
The rest of it, as konungursvia said, needs rewriting.
Remember - correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing make posts much easier to read.