Analysis of Discretion
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
AH, turn your pretty eyes away!
You would not have me love again?
Love's pleasure does not live a day,
Immortal is Love's pain,
And I am tired of pain.
I have loved once--aye, once or twice;
The pleasure died, the pain lives here;
I will not look in your sweet eyes,
I will not love you, Dear,
Lest you should grow too dear.
For I am weary and afraid.
Have I not seen why life was fair,
And known how good a world God made,
How sweet the blossoms were,
How dear the green fields were?
And I have found how life was gray,
A mist-hung road, a quest in vain,
Until once more Love smiled my way
And fooled me once again,
And taught me grief again.
Now I will gather no more grief;
I only ask to see the sky,
The budding flower, the budding leaf,
And put old dreamings by,
The dreams Love tortures by.
For, being wise, I love no more;
You, if you will, snare with those eyes
Some fool who never loved before,
And teach him to be wise!
For why should you be wise?
Scheme | ABACC XXDEE FXFGG ACABB HIHII JDJDD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (37%) |
Metre | 11110101 11111101 11011101 010111 0111011 11111111 01010111 11110111 111111 111111 11110001 11111111 01110111 110100 110110 01111111 01110101 01111111 011101 011101 11110111 11011101 010100101 01111 011101 11011111 11111111 11110101 011111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 965 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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