Analysis of Wasted Love
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
What shall be done for sorrow
With love whose race is run?
Where help is none to borrow,
What shall be done?
In vain his hands have spun
The web, or drawn the furrow:
No rest their toil hath won.
His task is all gone thorough,
And fruit thereof is none:
And who dare say to-morrow
What shall be done?
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel |
| Metre | 1111110 111111 111111 1111 011111 0111010 111111 1111110 01111 0111110 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 308 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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