Analysis of The First Love Dream
Henry Clay Work 1832 (Middletown, Connecticut) – 1884 (Hartford, Connecticut)
Last night, mother, he told me so,
As we walked by the pebbly stream;
And I wake so happy--so wild with joy,
It seems like a fairy dream.
But his charming voice is ringing in my ear,
As a dream voice chould not be--
He's the best man, you know, in the whole wide world,
And he loves--he only love me.
Kiss me, mother, and share the joy
That has on my fortune smiled;
You have shared myu sorrows when e'er I wept,
Since I was a little child
Do you chide me now? what could your darling do,
When he pleads with bended knee?
He's the best man, you know, in the whole wide world,
And he loves--he only loves me.
Leave you, mother, it brings a pang
To this light and bounding heart;
But if he were calling, the bride would go,
Tho' you and the daughter part.
At a word from him, a beckon of his hand,
I would cross the rolling sea--
He's the best man, you know, in the whole wide world,
And he loves--he only loves me.
Scheme | abcbxdEd cfxfxdED xgagxdED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 1111011 0111101111 1110101 11101110011 1011111 10111100111 01111011 11100101 1111101 11111011011 1110101 11111111101 1111101 10111100111 01111011 11101101 1110101 1110100111 1100101 10111010111 1110101 10111100111 01111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 898 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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