Analysis of Love's Demesne
Joseph Seamon Cotter 1861 (Louisville) – 1949
Old memories come trooping down
The vistas of the years;
In blue-girt robes of pleasure clad
Or garbed in tears.
Down from the days when hope was young
And sorrow never born,
My thoughts sweep o'er remembered scenes
Unto this morn.
Though motley company they are
Of smile or tear or frown,
They hold aloft the burnished gold
Of my heart's crown.
For through it all and over all
There gleams the light serene,
On purpled walls and crimson heights
In love's demesne.
Scheme | AXXX XBXB XAXA XXXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11001101 010101 01111101 1101 11011111 010101 111100101 1011 11010011 111111 11010101 1111 11110101 110101 1110101 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 469 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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