Analysis of Birds Sing I Love You, Love
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
Birds sing "I love you, love" the whole day through,
And not another song can they sing right;
But, singing done with, loving's done with quite,
The autumn sunders every twittering two.
And I'd not have love make too much ado
With sweet parades of fondness and delight,
Lest iterant wont should make caresses trite,
Love-names mere cuckoo ousters of the true.
Oh heart can hear heart's sense in senseless nought,
And heart that's sure of heart has little speech.
What shall it tell? The other knows its thought.
What shall one doubt or question or beseech
Who is assured and knows and, unbesought,
Possesses the dear trust that each gives each.
Scheme | ABBAABBA BCXCBC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 0101011111 110111111 010110011 0111111101 1101110001 111110101 11111101 1111110101 0111111101 1111010111 1111110101 11010101 0100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 652 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 255 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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