Analysis of Love
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
The longer I live and the more I see
Of the struggle of souls towards the heights above,
The stronger this truth comes home to me---
That the Universe rests on the shoulders of love,
A love so limitless, deep, and broad,
That men have re-named it, and called it God.
And nothing that was ever born or evolved,
Nothing created by light or force
But deep in its system there lies dissolved
A shining drop from the great Love source;
A shining drop that shall live for aye;
Though kingdoms may perish and stars decay.
Scheme | ABABXX CDCDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100111 101011010101 010111111 10101101011 011100101 1111110111 01011101101 100101111 1101101101 010110111 010111111 1101100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 521 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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