Analysis of If You Could Come
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
My love, my love, if you could come once more
From your high place,
I would not question you for heavenly lore,
But, silent, take the comfort of your face.
I would not ask you if those golden spheres
In love rejoice,
If only our stained star hath sin and tears,
But fill my famished hearing with your voice.
One touch of you were worth a thousand creeds.
My wound is numb
Through toil-pressed, but all night long it bleeds
In aching dreams, and still you cannot come.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111111111 1111 11110111001 1101010111 1111111101 0101 11010111101 1111010111 1111010101 1111 111111111 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 466 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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