Analysis of A Love Song
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
I gave her a rose in early June,
Fed with the sun and the dew,
Each petal I said is a note in the tune,
The rose is the whole tune through and through,
The tune is the whole red-hearted rose,
Flush and form, honey and hue,
Lull with the cadence and throb to the close,
I love you, I love you, I love you.
She gave me a rose in early June,
Fed with the sun and the dew,
Each petal she said is a mount in the moon,
The rose is the whole moon through and through,
The moon is the whole pale-hearted rose,
Round and radiance, burnish and blue,
Break in the flood-tide that murmurs and flows,
I love you, I love you, I love you.
This is our love in early June,
Fed with the sun and the dew,
Moonlight and roses hid in a tune,
The roses are music through and through,
The moonlight falls in the breath of the rose,
Light and cadence, honey and hue,
Mingle, and murmur, and flow to the close,
I love you, I love you, I love you.
Scheme | aBabcbdB aBabcbcB aBabcbdB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010101 1101001 11011101001 011011101 011011101 1011001 1101001101 111111111 111010101 1101001 11011101001 011011101 011011101 101001001 1001111001 111111111 111010101 1101001 10101001 010110101 011001101 10101001 1001001101 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 906 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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