Analysis of Child, Child
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fear though it break your heart --
Out of the wound new joy will start;
Only love proudly and gladly and well,
Though love be heaven or love be hell.
Child, child, love while you may,
For life is short as a happy day;
Never fear the thing you feel --
Only by love is life made real;
Love, for the deadly sins are seven,
Only through love will you enter heaven.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 01001001101 10111111 11011111 1011001001 111101111 111111 111110101 1010111 10111111 110101110 1011111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 442 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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