Analysis of Is This the Price of Love?
Joseph Seamon Cotter 1861 (Louisville) – 1949
Never again the sight of her?
Never her winsome smile
Shall light the path of my journeying
O'er many a weary mile?
Never again shall her soft voice come
To cheer me all the while?
O Thou, who hearest from above,
Tell me, is this the price of love?
Never again the touch of her lips?
Never her dark, brown eyes
Shall shine on me with the dancing joy
Of stars in the summer skies?
Never again shall my song be aught
Save minor chords of sighs?
O Thou, who hearest from above,
Tell me, is this the price of love?
| Scheme | xaxaxaBB xcxcxcBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010110 100101 110111100 10100101 100110111 111101 1111101 11110111 100101101 100111 111110101 1100101 100111111 110111 1111101 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 517 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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