Analysis of Lovers Parted
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
Old memories waken old desires
Infallibly. While we're alive
With eye or ear or sense at all,
Sometimes, must love revive.
But we'll not think, when some stray gust
Relumes the flicker of desire,
That fuel of circumstance could make
A furnace of our fire.
The past is gone. We must believe
It has no power to change our lives.
Yet still our constant hearts rejoice
Because the past survives.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100101010 11101 11111111 011101 11111111 10101010 11011011 01011010 01111101 1111011101 111010101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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