Analysis of I'm like all lovers, wanting love to be
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I'm like all lovers, wanting love to be
A very mighty thing for you and me.
In certain moods your love should be a fire
That burnt your very life up in desire.
The only kind of love then to my mind
Would make you kiss my shadow on the blind
And walk seven miles each night to see it there,
Myself within, serene and unaware.
But you're as bad. You'd have me watch the clock
And count your coming while I mend your sock.
You'd have my mind devoted day and night
To you and care for you and your delight.
Poor fools, who each would have the other give
What spirit must withhold if it would live.
You're not my slave, I wish you not to be.
I love yourself and not your love for me,
The self that goes ten thousand miles away
And loses thought of me for many a day.
And you loved me for loving much beside
But now you want a woman for your bride.
Oh, make no woman of me, you who can,
Or I will make a husband of a man.
By my unwomanly love that sets you free
Love all myself, but least the woman in me.
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Metre | 1111010111 0101011101 01011111010 11110110010 0101111111 111111101 01101111111 10101001 1111111101 0111011111 1111010101 1101110101 1111110101 1101011111 1111111111 1101011111 0111110101 01011111001 0111110101 1111010111 1111011111 1111010101 11111111 1111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,007 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 766 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 207 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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