Analysis of Love Litanies.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
I.
I, too, have come to feel and see
How little in the world can be
Ours, as we pine and pass —
How all we long for, know of, love,
As in a dream from us remove,
Till each becomes the shadow of
A light that was.
II.
We must all somehow be made
One with time, that fleeting shade;
Until we within the dust
Wither as sweet violets must
In their own scent, as they lie
Like a virgin memory
Trembling with its sweetest breath
In the mystery of death.
Scheme | ABBCDEDFAGGHHABII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11111101 11000111 1011101 11111111 10011101 1101011 0111 1 111111 1111101 0110101 10111001 0111111 1010100 10011101 0010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 440 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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