Analysis of Take Care, Take Care
John Freeman 1880 – 1929
Bind up, bind up your dark bright hair
And hide the smouldering sunken fire.
Let it be held no more than fair,
Nor yourself guess how rare, how rare
Its movement, colour and deep fire.
Your eyes they have their consciousness,
Your lips their grave reflective smile,
Your hands their cunning for distress:
Your hair has only beauteousness
And hid flame for its only guile.
That glowing hair on shoulders white
Is pride past sum: take care, take care!
Even to dream of wish'd delight
Too much perturbs the ebb of night--
Bind up, bind up your burning hair!
Scheme | ABAAB CDXCD EAEEA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111111 01011010 11111111 10111111 11010110 11111100 11110101 11110101 111101 01111101 11011101 11111111 10111101 11010111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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