Analysis of For love of you my lute was strung
Dollie Radford 1858 (England) – 1920
FOR love of you my lute was strung,
When singing days were fair and young,
When life and hope and song were new,
And all were sweet for love of you.
For love of you from June to June
My heart beat to a triumph tune,
And music rose by sea and land,
In answer to a victor's hand.
For love of you from sun to sun,
I strove to sing when songs were done,
And on each failing string my tears
Burnt silence, through the empty years.
But broken now 'neath evening skies,
My lute for ever tuneless lies,
And I but mourn the songs I knew,
Which were so sweet for love of you.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFGHHBB |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 11010101 11010101 01011111 11111111 11110101 01011101 01010101 11111111 11111101 01110111 11010101 11011101 1111011 01110111 10111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 558 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 433 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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