Analysis of What Is Woman But A Song!
Timothy Thomas Fortune 1856 ( Marianna, Florida) – 1928 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
There was love, and there was beauty,
In the face upturned to me;
And her hair was long and golden,
Soft to touch and good to see;
Her blue eyes were full of laughter
As they burned into my own,
Glowing like a priceless diamond—
Fascinating as that stone.
What is life but love, devotion!—
What is woman but a song—
But a lyric caught from Nature—
But an echo sounding long—
Filling all the earth with gladness—
Filling all the earth with madness—
What is woman but a song!
| Scheme | aabacdxd bEceffE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101110 001111 00111010 1110111 01101110 1110111 10101010 100111 11111010 1110101 10101110 1110101 1010111 10101110 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 495 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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