Analysis of Winding All My Life About Thee
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Winding all my life about thee,
Let me lay my lips on thine;
What is all the world without thee,
Mine --oh mine!
Let me press my heart out on thee,
Grape of life's most fiery vine,
Spilling sacramental on thee
Love's red wine.
Let thy strong eyes yearning o'er me
Draw me with their force divine;
All my soul has gone before me
Clasping thine.
Irresistibly I follow,
As whenever we may run
Runs our shadow, as the swallow
Seeks the sun.
Yea, I tremble, swoon, surrender
All my spirit to thy sway,
As a star is drowned in splendour
Of the day.
| Scheme | ABAB ABAB ABAB CDCD EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10111011 1111111 11101011 111 11111111 11111001 10100011 111 111110101 1111101 11111011 11 0100110 1010111 11011010 101 11101010 1110111 1011101 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 546 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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