Analysis of LOVE
The morn is giving birth
To the dawn- yet to reign, still budding, undone.
Shall you play the earth,
And me the sun? -
Why not? -
Let us go, let us go
Where the blue currents run,
Now hither, now there, now high, now low,
Upon the lot
Of the breeze-caressed hill.
Let me kiss your sweet flesh of the daffodil,
And embrace you in the waking glen.
And then, let me love you
In the succulent vineyards,
In the blooms of the hazy, yawning garden.
And there, beneath the greenish hue
Of the quickening firmament,
Astonishing and bright,
Where lovers and bards
Succor in the sunlight
Nipples of crimson, lips of wine,
Beneath the fleecy willows bent,
Let our bodies unite
In the rapture of the sunshine,
Where sure delight
Is yours and mine.
And the approaching rain
Shall find us- twain
In spirit and in flesh,
Indeed as one-
As the gray clouds mesh
With the scarlet sun.
JOHN LARS ZWERENZ
Scheme | ABABCDBDCE EXFGBFCHGH IXHIHI JJKBKB G |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 10111111001 11101 0101 11 111111 101101 110111111 0101 101011 1111111010 001100101 011111 0010010 00110101010 01010101 101001 010001 11001 10001 10110111 0101011 110101 0010101 1101 1101 000101 1111 010001 0111 10111 10101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 856 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 6, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Rhyming, Metered Verse
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Written on July 30, 2017
Submitted by angelabradford2 on October 04, 2021
Modified on May 03, 2023
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