Analysis of The Passing of Love

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal 1829 (London) – 1862 (London)



O God, forgive me that I ranged
My live into a dream of love!
Will tears of anguish never wash
The passion from my blood?

Love kept my heart in a song of joy,
My pulses quivered to the tune;
The coldest blasts of winter blew
Upon me like sweet airs in June.

Love floated on the mists of morn
And rested on the sunset’s rays;
He calmed the thunder of the storm
And lighted all my ways.

Love held me joyful through the day
And dreaming ever through the night;
No evil thing could come to me,
My spirit was so light.

O Heaven help my foolish heart
Which heeded not the passing time
That dragged my idol from its place
And shattered all its shrine.


Scheme XXXX XAXA XBXB XCXC XXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (60%)
Etheree  (35%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11011111 11010111 11110101 010111 111100111 1101101 01011101 01111101 11010111 0101011 11010101 010111 11110101 01010101 11011111 110111 11011101 11010101 11110111 010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 635
Words 129
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, styled and commonly known as "Lizzie", was an English artist, poet, and artists' model. Siddall was an important and influential artist and poet. Significant collections of her artworks can be found at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean. Siddall was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais (including his notable 1852 painting Ophelia), and her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. more…

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