Analysis of The Heart Of Joy
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
DEAR, do you sigh that your love may not stay with you,
Laugh with and play with you,
Weep with and pray with you,
All his life through?
Think, O my heart, if you never had found me,
Crept through the cere-clothes the world has wound round me,
What would you do?
Wide is the world, and so many would sigh for you,
Long for and cry for you,
Weep for and die for you,
You being you.
I only I, am the man you could sigh for,
Live for and suffer for, sorrow and die for,
Twenty lives through.
Think! Had I missed you! The world was so wide for us,
Traps on each side for us,
Nothing as guide for us,
Yet I and you
Found Life's great treasure, the last and the first, love;
Life's little things, Time and Space, do their worst, love!
What, after all, can they do?
| Scheme | AAAABBA AAAA CCA DDDAEEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111111111 110111 110111 1111 11111110111 11011011111 1111 110101101111 110111 110111 1101 11011011111 11010110011 1011 111110111111 111111 101111 1101 11110010011 11011011111 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 766 |
| Words | 155 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 4, 3, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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