A Love-Letter
Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947
Darling little woman, just a little line,
Just a little silver word
For that dear gold of thine,
Only a whisper you have so often heard:
Only such a whisper as hidden in a shell
Holds a little breath of all the mighty sea,
But think what a little of all its depth and swell,
And think what a little is this little note of me.
'Darling, I love thee, that is all I live for' -
There is the whisper stealing from the shell,
But here is the ocean, O so deep and boundless,
And each little wave with its whisper as well.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD XCXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 510 |
Words | 106 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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