Analysis of When you loved me
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
There are two births; the one when light
First strikes the new awoken sense;
The other when two souls unite,
And we must count our life from thence:
When you loved me and I loved you
Then both of us were born anew.
Love then to us new souls did give
And in those souls did plant new powers;
Since when another life we live,
The breath we breathe is his, not ours:
Love makes those young whom age doth chill,
And whom he finds young keeps young still.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 110111 0101111 011110111 11110111 11110101 11111111 001111110 11010111 011111110 11111111 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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