Dunce Songs : 9

Mark Van Doren 1894 (Vermilion County) – 1972 (Torrington)



Love me little, love me long,
Then we neither can be wrong:
You in giving, I in taking;
There is nor a heart breaking
But remembers one touch,
Or maybe seven, of too much.

Love me more than halfway, though.
Let me think, then let me know.
And I promise you the same:
A little wild, a little tame;
Lest it ever seem long:
Tick, tock, ding, dong.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AABBCC DDEEAA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 341
Words 70
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6

Mark Van Doren

Mark Van Doren was an American poet, writer and a critic, apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. more…

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