Analysis of Girl's Love
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I lie in the dark
Grass beneath and you above me,
Curved like the sky,
Insistent that you love me.
But the high stars
Admonish to refuse you
And I'm for the stars
Though in the stars I lose you.
| Scheme | ABCBDEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001 10101011 1101 0101111 1011 0101011 01101 1001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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