Analysis of Youth And Age. (Sonnet III.)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Oh give me back the days when loose and free
To my blind passion were the curb and rein,
Oh give me back the angelic face again,
With which all virtue buried seems to be!
Oh give my panting footsteps back to me,
That are in age so slow and fraught with pain,
And fire and moisture in the heart and brain,
If thou wouldst have me burn and weep for thee!
If it be true thou livest alone, Amor,
On the sweet-bitter tears of human hearts,
In an old man thou canst not wake desire;
Souls that have almost reached the other shore
Of a diviner love should feel the darts,
And be as tinder to a holier fire.
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Metre | 1111011101 1111000101 1111010101 1111010111 111101111 1101110111 01001000101 1111110111 1111110110 1011011101 01111111010 111110101 10111101 011101010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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