Analysis of Sweethearts
Dame Mary Gilmore 1865 (Crookwell, New South Wales) – 1962 (Sydney, New South Wales)
IT’S gettin’ bits o’ posies,
’N’ feelin’ mighty good;
A-thrillin’ ’cause she loves you,
An’ wond’rin’ why she should;
An’ stoppin’ sort o’ sudden,
Because you’re full o’ thought;
An’ quick with res’less feelin’s
That make life seem too short!
It’s feelin’ ’s if she’d loved you
Before the world was made;
As if she still would love you,
When all our debts are paid;
As if there’s nothin’ mattered,
As if the world was good,
As if the Lord was lookin’,
An’ sort o’ understood.
It’s feelin’ kind an’ gentle
To everything that’s weak,
And doin’ jus’ sich actions
As nearly seem to speak;
Sich actions women reckon
Are certain to occur
When he’s in love with some one,
And that some one is—her.
Scheme | ABCB DXAX CECE XBDB XFAF DGDG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11111 11101 011111 11111 111110 011111 11111 111111 1111111 010111 1111111 1110111 1111010 110111 110111 11101 111110 11011 011110 110111 1101010 110101 1101111 011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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