Analysis of Ah, Yesterday Was Dark and Drear
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Ah, yesterday was dark and drear,
My heart was deadly sore;
Without thy love it seemed, my Dear,
That I could live no more.
And yet I laugh and sing to-day;
Care or care not for me,
Thou canst not take the love away
With which I worship thee.
And if to-morrow, Dear, I live,
My heart I shall not break:
For still I hold it that to give
Is sweeter than to take.
| Scheme | AAAA BCBC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101101 111101 01111111 111111 01110111 111111 11110101 111101 01110111 111111 11111111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 368 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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