Analysis of Love

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919



The longer I live and the more I see
Of the struggle of souls towards the heights above,
The stronger this truth comes home to me---
That the Universe rests on the shoulders of love,
A love so limitless, deep, and broad,
That men have re-named it, and called it God.

And nothing that was ever born or evolved,
Nothing created by light or force
But deep in its system there lies dissolved
A shining drop from the great Love source;
A shining drop that shall live for aye;
Though kingdoms may perish and stars decay.


Scheme ABABXX CDCDXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101100111 101011010101 010111111 10101101011 011100101 1111110111 01011101101 100101111 1101101101 010110111 010111111 1101100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 521
Words 98
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 202
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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