Analysis of To His Love
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
(With his first book of 'Songs')
'MY Sweet, my Child, through all this night
Of dark and wind and rain,
Where thunder crashes, and the light
Sears the bewildered brain,
'It is your Face, your lips, your eyes
I see rise up; I hear
Your Voice that sobs and calls and cries,
Or shrills and mocks at fear.
'O this that's mine is yours as well,
For side by side our feet
Trod through these bitter brakes of hell.
Take it, my Child, my Sweet!'
Scheme | X ABABCXCXDEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 11111111 110101 11010001 100101 11111111 111111 11110101 110111 11111111 1111101 11110111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 433 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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