Analysis of Xxi
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
Say over again, and yet once over again,
That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated
Should seem ' a cuckoo-song,' as thou dost treat it,
Remember, never to the hill or plain,
Valley and wood, without her cuckoo-strain
Comes the fresh Spring in all her green completed.
Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a doubtful spirit-voice, in that doubt's pain
Cry, ' Speak once more--thou lovest ! ' Who can fear
Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll,
Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year ?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me--toll
The silver iterance !--only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence with thy soul.
Scheme | ABCDDEEDFGFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010111001 11111101010 1101111111 0101010111 100101011 10110101010 0110101010 10101010111 111111111 11011101011 11010111101 1111111111 010110101 11110010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 494 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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