Analysis of Love
Victor James Daley 1858 – 1905
Love is the sunlight of the soul,
That, shining on the silken-tressèd head
Of her we love, around it seems to shed
A golden angel-aureole.
And all her ways seem sweeter ways
Than those of other women in that light:
She has no portion with the pallid night,
But is a part of all fair days.
Joy goes where she goes, and good dreams—
Her smile is tender as an old romance
Of Love that dies not, and her soft eye’s glance
Like sunshine set to music seems.
Queen of our fate is she, but crowned
With purple hearts-ease for her womanhood.
There is no place so poor where she has stood
But evermore is holy ground.
An angel from the heaven above
Would not be fair to us as she is fair:
She holds us in a mesh of silken hair,
This one sweet woman whom we love.
We pray thee, Love, our souls to steep
In dreams wherein thy myrtle flowereth;
So when the rose leaves shiver, feeling Death
Pass by, we may remain asleep:
Asleep, with poppies in our hands,
From all the world and all its cares apart—
Cheek close to cheek, heart beating against heart,
While through Life’s sandglass run the sands
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK MNNM |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101101 1101010111 1011011111 01010100 01011101 1111010011 1111010101 11011111 11111011 0111011101 1111100111 1111101 111011111 110111010 1111111111 1101101 110101001 1111111111 1110011101 11110111 111110111 01011101 1101110101 11110101 011100101 1101011101 1111110011 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,118 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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