Analysis of Love Came Back At Fall O’ Dew
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
Love came back at fall o' dew,
Playing his old part;
But I had a word or two
That would break his heart.
'He who comes at candlelight,
That should come before,
Must betake him to the night
From a barred door.'
This the word that made us part
In the fall o' dew;
This the word that brake his heart --
Yet it brake mine, too.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD BABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111111 10111 1110111 11111 111110 11101 1011101 1011 1011111 00111 1011111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 331 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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