Analysis of All That's Not Love . . .
Alan Seeger 1888 (New York City) – 1916
All that's not love is the dearth of my days,
The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit,
The temple in times without prayer, without praise,
The altar unset and the candle unlit.
Let me survive not the lovable sway
Of early desire, nor see when it goes
The courts of Life's abbey in ivied decay,
Whence sometime sweet anthems and incense arose.
The delicate hues of its sevenfold rings
The rainbow outlives not; their yellow and blue
The butterfly sees not dissolve from his wings,
But even with their beauty life fades from them too.
No more would I linger past Love's ardent bounds
Nor live for aught else but the joy that it craves,
That, burden and essence of all that surrounds,
Is the song in the wind and the smile on the waves.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEB FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101111 0110101101 01001011011 0100100101 1101101001 11001011111 0111100101 1111000101 0100111101 011111001 0101101111 110111011111 11111011101 11111101111 11001011101 101001001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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