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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Poetic Form
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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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Lesbia Harford

Lesbia Harford was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. more…

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