Love Sonnet LX
Zora Bernice May Cross 1890 (Eagle Farm, Queensland) – 1964 (Glenbrook, New South Wales)
My mind and heart both love you utterly.
And so each thought of mine is doubly yours,
And all my will about your body pours
Scents of my blood and fires that flow from me.
Who has created me, so young, so free,
Eager to-day to close convention’s doors,
To-morrow to return and sweep the floors
With my loose hair in blinding memory?
Dearest, you have, who gave my heart such love,
It sang the marriage of our mingling blood;
Sweeping us on in a supreme control,
To those vast stillnesses that move above;
And in the wonder of its mighty flood
My mind drew God from your eternal soul.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBAABBA CDECDE |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
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