Analysis of Let Us Make A Leap, My Dear
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
Let us make a leap, my dear,
In our love, of many a year,
And date it very far away,
On a bright clear summer day,
When the heart was like a sun
To itself, and falsehood none;
And the rosy lips a part
Of the very loving heart,
And the shining of the eye
But a sign to know it by;—
When my faults were all forgiven,
And my life deserved of Heaven.
Dearest, let us reckon so,
And love for all that long ago;
Each absence count a year complete,
And keep a birthday when we meet.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEECCFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 010111001 01110101 1011101 1011101 101011 0010101 1010101 0010101 1011111 11101010 01101110 1011101 01111101 11010101 0101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 485 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 359 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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