Analysis of Two Loves
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
The woman he loved, while he dreamed of her,
Danced on till the stars grew dim,
But alone with her heart, from the world apart
Sat the woman who loved him.
The woman he worshipped only smiled
When he poured out his passionate love.
But the other somewhere, kissed her treasure most rare,
A book he had touched with his glove.
The woman he loved betrayed his trust,
And he wore the scars for life;
And he cared not, nor knew, that the other was true;
But no man called her his wife.
The woman he loved trod festal halls,
While they sang his funeral hymn,
But the sad bells tolled, ere the year was old,
For the woman that loved him.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101111110 1110111 10110110101 1010111 010110101 111111001 10101101011 01111111 010110111 0110111 011111101011 1111011 01011111 11111001 1011110111 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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