Analysis of Interlude
John Drinkwater 1882 ( Leytonstone, London, ) – 1937 ( London)
What love is; how I love; how builders' clay
By love is lit into a golden spending;
How love calls beautiful ghosts back to the day;
How life because of love shall have no ending,
These with the dawn I have begun to sing,
These with the million-budded noon that's rising
Shall be a theme, with love's consent, to bring
My song to some imperishable devising.
And may the petals of this garland fall
On every quarrel, and in fragrance bless
Old friendship; and a little comfort all
The weary loves that walk the wilderness,
While still my song I consecrate alone
To her who taking it shall take her own.
| Scheme | ABABBBBBCDCEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111101 11110101010 11110011101 11011111110 1101110111 1101011110 1101110111 11111010 0101011101 11001000101 1100010101 0101110100 111111001 1011011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 590 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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