Analysis of Song #5.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Never remember what love's been,
That is the sorrow the world knows;
Forget it, or the heart too keen
Will ache and ache to the weary close.
Harden the heart even to love,
Or the change in the tender eyes
Will more than hate or passion move
The tears to fall, the wrath to rise.
Once the change comes, dare to forget
The sweetest truth you've dreamed of her,
Or the heart will so fret and fret
That it will have no comforter.
Turn not on love in the heart's despair,
For e'en her smiles were bitter then,
When all her faith is light as air,
And all her ways are hers again.
Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIHIJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010111 11010011 01110111 110110101 10011011 10100101 11111101 01110111 10111101 01011110 10111101 11111100 111100101 111010101 11011111 01011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 443 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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