Analysis of The Lust of the Eyes
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal 1829 (London) – 1862 (London)
I care not for my Lady’s soul
Though I worship before her smile;
I care not where be my Lady’s goal
When her beauty shall lose its wile.
Low sit I down at my Lady’s feet
Gazing through her wild eyes
Smiling to think how my love will fleet
When their starlike beauty dies.
I care not if my Lady pray
To our Father which is in Heaven
But for joy my heart’s quick pulses play
For to me her love is given.
Then who shall close my Lady’s eyes
And who shall fold her hands?
Will any hearken if she cries
Up to the unknown lands?
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF DGDG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111111 11100101 11111111 10101111 11111111 101011 101111111 111101 11111101 1101011010 111111101 11101110 1111111 011101 1101111 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 537 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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