Analysis of OUR LOVE
Our love was an ivory boon,
Which reigned with the angels in the night.
We would kiss beneath the moon,
Among the statues in the light.
But your death arrived too soon,
And so soared our felicity out of sight,
Which was once so gold, which was once so bright.
Now all that I can ponder,
All that I can see,
Is your fair face over yonder,
In a court of majesty,
Surrounded by slender, radiant fountains,
Where in a haze, you dream,
In the square beyond the mountains,
Lazing by a falling stream.
John Lars Zwerenz
Scheme | ABABABB CD CDEFEF D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111001 111010001 1110101 0101001 1110111 011100100111 1111111111 1111110 11111 11111010 0011100 01011010010 100111 00101010 110101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 505 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 2, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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