Analysis of You Make the Sunshine of my Heart
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
You make the sunshine of my heart
And its tempestuous shower;
Sometimes the thought of you is like
A lilac bush in flower,
Yea, honey-sweet as hives in May.
And then the pang of it will strike
My bosom with a fiery smart,
As though love's deeply planted dart
Drained all its life away.
My thoughts hum round you, Dear, like bees
About a bank of thyme,
Or round the yellow blossoms of
The heavy-scented lime.
Ah, sweeter you than honeydew,
Yet dark the ways of love,
For it has robbed my soul of peace,
And marred my life and turned heart's-ease
Into funereal rue.
Scheme | ABCBDCAAD EFGFHGXEH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 0110010 01011111 011010 11011101 01011111 110101001 11110101 111101 11111111 010111 11010101 010101 1101110 110111 11111111 01110111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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