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
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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Duncan Campbell Scott

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