Analysis of Tell me not of morrows, sweet
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
TELL me not of morrows, sweet;
All to-day is fair, and ours,
Thine and mine;
Mar not Now with needing more.
Neither speak of yesterdays;
Lose not Now with backward gaze,
Lingering on what went before.
Watch for all to-day's new flowers,
Mine and thine,
Else to-day were incomplete.
Nay, but speak of morrows, sweet;
Lest to-day seem loss of ours,
Thine and mine,
Leaving nought to come again.
Nay, but speak of yesterdays,
Lest, forgetting trodden ways,
We have trodden them in vain.
Make one love-time of all hours,
Mine and thine,
Else to-day were incomplete.
Scheme | abCdeedbCA abCxeexbCA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111111 11111010 101 1111101 101110 1111101 10011101 11111110 101 1110001 111111 11111110 101 1011101 111110 1010101 1110101 11111110 101 1110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 550 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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