Analysis of A Dedication
James Martin Devaney 1890 – 1976
Because I went the lone ways
Among the tall trees,
Because I loved the blue days,
The bird melodies,
Deemed you I did our love wrong
In loving these too?
Ah, every forest love song
Was sung, love, for you.
The green slope, the sky above,
The wild forest lore-
All these were but the mind's love:
The deep heart has more.
And were you rival of the wren?
Resentful of the dawn?
Ah, what would these avail, then,
If you, dear, were gone?
The wild joy that things possess
Would seem out of place,
And all beauty meaningless
For want of one face;
The wren's lilt for lack of you
Would wring the heart's core,
And stars upon the night's blue
Would move me no more.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJKJDFDF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011 01011 0111011 01100 11111011 01011 11001011 11111 0110101 01101 1101011 01111 00110101 010101 1111011 11101 0111101 11111 0110100 11111 0111111 11011 0101011 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 503 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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