Analysis of Love is like a dizziness

James Hogg 1770 (Ettrick, Scotland) – 1835 (Ettrick, Scotland)



O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness;
It winna let a puir body
Gang about his biziness!


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 1111 1110100 1110110 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 101
Words 21
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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James Hogg

James Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English. more…

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