Analysis of If we must part



If we must part,
Then let it be like this.
Not heart on heart,
Nor with the useless anguish of a kiss;
But touch mine hand and say:
"Until to-morrow or some other day,
If we must part".

Words are so weak
When love hath been so strong;
Let silence speak:
"Life is a little while, and love is long;
A time to sow and reap,
And after harvest a long time to sleep,
But words are weak."


Scheme AbabccA dedeffd
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 111111 1111 1101010101 111101 0111011101 1111 1111 111111 1101 1101010111 011101 0101001111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 376
Words 81
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 7
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 13, 2023

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Ernest Christopher Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson was born in 1867 at Lea in Kent England he was an English poet novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement Most of his life was spent in France more…

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