Analysis of Are you Loving Enough?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Are you loving enough? There is some one dear,
Some one you hold as the dearest of all
In the holiest shrine of your heart.
Are you making it known? Is the truth of it clear
To the one you love? If death's quick call
Should suddenly tear you apart,
Leaving no time for a long farewell,
Would you feel you had nothing to tell---
Nothing you wished you had said before
The closing of that dark door?
Are you loving enough? The swift years fly---
Oh, faster and faster they hurry away,
And each one carries its dead.
The good deed left for the by and by,
The word to be uttered another day,
May never be done or said.
Let the love word sound in the listening ear,
Nor wait to speak it above a bier.
Oh the time for telling your love is brief,
But long, long, long is the time for grief.
Are you loving enough?
Scheme | ABCABCDDEE FGHFGHIIJJX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100111111 1111101011 001001111 111011101111 101111111 11001101 10111011 111111011 101111101 0101111 1110010111 11001011001 0111011 011110101 0111100101 1101111 10111001001 111110101 1011101111 111110111 111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 813 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 309 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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