Analysis of Pastiche
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
LOVE, oh, Love's a dainty sweeting,
Wooing now, and now retreating;
Brightest joy and blackest care,
Swift as light, and light as air.
Would you seize and fix and capture
All his evanescent rapture?
Bind him fast with golden curls,
Fetter with a chain of pearls?
Would you catch him in a net,
Like a white moth prankt with jet?
Clutch him, and his bloomy wing
Turns a dead, discoloured thing!
Pluck him like a rosebud red,
And he leaves a thorn instead;
Let him go without a care,
And he follows unaware.
Love, oh Love's a dainty sweeting,
Wooing now, and now retreating;
Lightly come, and lightly gone,
Lost when most securely won!
Scheme | AAbb ccdd eeaa ffbb AAxx |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11101010 10101010 1010101 1110111 11101010 1101010 1111101 1010111 1111001 1011111 110111 10111 1110101 0110101 1110101 011001 11101010 10101010 1010101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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