Analysis of A Song Of Love
Virna Sheard 1862 (Cobourg) – 1943 ( Toronto)
Love reckons not by time - its May days of delight
Are swifter than the falling stars that pass beyond our sight.
Love reckons not by time - its moments of despair
Are years that march like prisoners, who drag the chains they wear.
Love counts not by the sun - it hath no night or day -
'Tis only light when love is near - 'tis dark with love away.
Love hath no measurements of height, or depth, or space,
But yet within a little grave it oft hath found a place.
Love is its own best law - its wrongs seek no redress;
Love is forgiveness - and it only knoweth how to bless.
| Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 110111111101 110101011101101 110111110101 11111100110111 111101111111 11011111111101 111100111111 11010101111101 111111111101 1101001101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 576 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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