Analysis of Jenifer's Love
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 1863 (Bodmin, Cornwall) – 1944 (Cornwall)
Small is my secret-let it pass-
Small in your life the share I had,
Who sat beside you in the class,
Awed by the bright superior lad:
Whom yet with hot and eager face
I prompted when he missed his place.
For you the call came swift and soon:
But sometimes in your holidays
You meet me trudging home at noon
To dinner through the dusty ways,
And recognized, and with a nod
Passed on, but never guessed-thank God!
Truly our ways were separate.
I bent myself to hoe and drill,
Yea, with an honest man to mate,
Fulfilling God Almighty's will;
And bore him children. But my prayers
Were yours-and, only after, theirs.
While you-still loftier, more remote,
You sprang from stair to stair of fame,
And you've a riband on your coat,
And you've a title to your name;
But have you yet a star to shine
Above your bed, as I o'er mine?
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GH GHII JKJKLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 10110111 11011001 110101001 11110101 11011111 11011101 1010110 11110111 11010101 0100101 11110111 10101010 1111101 11110111 010111 01110111 01010101 111100101 11111111 0101111 01010111 11110111 011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 807 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 2, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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