Sweethearts
Dame Mary Gilmore 1865 (Crookwell, New South Wales) – 1962 (Sydney, New South Wales)
IT’S gettin’ bits o’ posies,
’N’ feelin’ mighty good;
A-thrillin’ ’cause she loves you,
An’ wond’rin’ why she should;
An’ stoppin’ sort o’ sudden,
Because you’re full o’ thought;
An’ quick with res’less feelin’s
That make life seem too short!
It’s feelin’ ’s if she’d loved you
Before the world was made;
As if she still would love you,
When all our debts are paid;
As if there’s nothin’ mattered,
As if the world was good,
As if the Lord was lookin’,
An’ sort o’ understood.
It’s feelin’ kind an’ gentle
To everything that’s weak,
And doin’ jus’ sich actions
As nearly seem to speak;
Sich actions women reckon
Are certain to occur
When he’s in love with some one,
And that some one is—her.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCB DXAX CECE XBDB XFAF DGDG |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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