Analysis of Last Love
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
The first flower of the spring is not so fair
Or bright, as one the ripe midsummer brings.
The first faint note the forest warbler sings
Is not as rich with feeling, or so rare
As when, full master of his art, the air
Drowns in the liquid sea of song he flings
Like silver spray from beak, and breast, and wings.
The artist's earliest effort wrought with care,
The bard's first ballad, written in his tears,
Set by his later toil seems poor and tame.
And into nothing dwindles at the test.
So with the passions of maturer years
Let those who will demand the first fond flame,
Give me the heart's last love, for that is best.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101011111 1111011101 0111010101 1111110111 1111011101 1001011111 1101110101 01010010111 0111010011 1111011101 0011010101 11010111 1111010111 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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