Analysis of Antagonists
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
WHAT though the neutral sea sever us twain?
In the still night your soul in mine I take;
Your eyes, hilarious with passion, wake,
And love's delirium is mine again,
When all your body's warmth swirled in my brain—
Your face uplifted like a pallid lake
Where in my eager lips their thirst could slake,
With deep-sighed, langourous kisses, keener than pain.
Then suddenly through passion's rosy mists
A shudder trickled, like a stream of blood:
In a grim pause we felt and understood.
The everlasting war that was our fate—
The pitiless struggle and primeval hate
Of old implacable antagonists.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011011 0011110111 1101001101 0101001101 1111011011 1110010101 1011011111 1111101011 110011101 0101010111 001111001 0010111101 01001000101 1101000100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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