Analysis of If We Had Met
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
If we had met when leaves were green,
And fate to us less hard had proved,
And naught had been of what has been,
We might have loved as none have loved.
If we had met as girl and boy,
The world of pleasure at our feet,
Our joy had been a perfect joy;
We might have met, but did not meet.
Nor less in youth's full passionate day,
A woman you and I a man,
We might have loved and found a way
No laws could check, no vows could ban.
Too late! Too sad! A year ago,
Even then perhaps, in spite of fate
It might have been,--but ah! not now,
I dare not love you, 'tis too late.
Scheme | XXXX ABAB CDCD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11111101 01111111 01111111 11111111 11111101 011101101 101110011 11111111 110111001 01010101 11110101 11111111 11110101 101010111 11111111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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