Analysis of Of Woman's Love.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Of all the loves the heart can hold
The love of woman's first;
It was this one love that we had
Or e'er the world was cursed.
Then other loves — our passions — threw
Their shadows on the brain,
And like ill weeds they grew and grew
Amid the golden grain.
Ah! woman's love's the one thing true
In a world of lures and lies,
As if it were man's heaven that had
Survived his paradise!
Our other loves are but the dross
That to the soul must cling
Till we've forgot life's every loss
In Love's remembering.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 011101 11111111 1100111 110110101 11101 01111101 010101 11010111 0011101 111011011 01110 101011101 110111 110111001 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 386 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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