Analysis of Time And Love
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Time flies. The swift hours hurry by
And speed us on to untried ways;
New seasons ripen, perish, die,
And yet love stays.
The old, old love – like sweet at first,
At last like bitter wine –
I know not if it blest or curst,
Thy life and mine.
Time flies. In vain our prayers, our tears,
We cannot tempt him to delays;
Down to the past he bears the years,
And yet love stays.
Through changing task and varying dream
We hear the same refrain,
As one can hear a plaintive theme
Run through each strain.
Time flies. He steals out pulsing youth,
He robs us of our care-free days,
He takes away our trust and truth,
And yet love stays.
O Time! take love! When love is vain,
When all its best joys die –
When only its regrets remain –
Let love, too, fly.
Scheme | abaBcdcd xbxBefef gbgBfafa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110101 01111011 11010101 0111 01111111 111101 11111111 1101 1101101101 11011101 11011101 0111 110101001 110101 11110101 1111 11111101 111110111 110110101 0111 11111111 111111 11010101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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