Analysis of A Love Symphony
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy 1844 (London) – 1881 (London)
Along the garden ways just now
I heard the flowers speak;
The white rose told me of your brow,
The red rose of your cheek;
The lily of your bended head,
The bindweed of your hair:
Each looked its loveliest and said
You were more fair.
I went into the wood anon,
And heard the wild birds sing
How sweet you were; they warbled on,
Piped, trilled the self-same thing.
Thrush, blackbird, linnet, without pause,
The burden did repeat,
And still began again because
You were more sweet.
And then I went down to the sea,
And heard it murmuring too,
Part of an ancient mystery,
All made of me and you.
How many a thousand years ago
I loved, and you were sweet--
Longer I could not stay, and so
I fled back to your feet.
Scheme | ABABCDCD AEXEFGFG HIHIJGJG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010111 110101 01111111 011111 01011101 01111 111101 1011 1101011 010111 11101101 110111 11010011 010101 01010101 1011 01111101 0111001 11110100 111101 110010101 110101 10111101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 696 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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