Analysis of Ask, Is Love divine
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Ask, is Love divine,
Voices all are, ay.
Question for the sign,
There's a common sigh.
Would we, through our years,
Love forego,
Quit of scars and tears?
Ah, but no, no, no!
| Scheme | ABACDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 10111 10101 10101 111101 101 11101 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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