Analysis of Silent Love. (From The German)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Who love would seek,
Let him love evermore
And seldom speak:
For in love's domain
Silence must reign;
Or it brings the heart
Smart
And pain.
| Scheme | ABACCDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 11110 0101 10101 1011 11101 1 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 142 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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