Analysis of The Sailor's Sweetheart
Duncan Campbell Scott 1862 (Ottawa) – 1947
O if love were had for asking,
In the markets of the town,
Hardly a lass would think to wear
A fine silken gown:
But love is had by grieving
By choosing and by leaving,
And there's no one now to ask me
If heavy lies my heart.
O if love were had for a deep wish
In the deadness of the night,
There'd be a truce to longing
Between the dusk and the light:
But love is had for sighing,
For living and for dying,
And there's no one now to ask me
If heavy lies my heart.
O if love were had for taking
Like honey from the hive,
The bees that made the tender stuff
Could hardly keep alive:
But love it is a wounded thing,
A tremor and a smart,
And there's no one left to kiss me now
Over my heavy heart.
Scheme | abxbaaCD xeaeaaCD afxfadxd |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 0010101 10011111 01101 1111110 1100110 01111111 110111 111011011 001101 1101110 0101001 1111110 1100110 01111111 110111 11101110 110101 01110101 110101 11110101 010001 011111111 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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