Analysis of Once we were happy
Torquato Tasso 1544 (Sorrento) – 1595 (Rome)
Once we were happy, I
Loving and beloved,
You loved and loving, sweetly moved.
Then you became the enemy
Of love, and I to disdain
Found youthful passion change.
Disdain demands I speak,
Disdain, that in my breast
Keeps the shame of my neglected offering fresh:
And from your laurel
Tears the leaves, now dry, once beautiful.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJJ |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 10001 11010101 11010100 1101101 110101 010111 011011 101110101001 01110 101111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 324 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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