Analysis of Love's Apotheosis
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Love me. I care not what the circling years
To me may do.
If, but in spite of time and tears,
You prove but true.
Love me--albeit grief shall dim mine eyes,
And tears bedew,
I shall not e'en complain, for then my skies
Shall still be blue.
Love me, and though the winter snow shall pile,
And leave me chill,
Thy passion's warmth shall make for me, meanwhile,
A sun-kissed hill.
And when the days have lengthened into years,
And I grow old,
Oh, spite of pains and griefs and cares and fears,
Grow thou not cold.
Then hand and hand we shall pass up the hill,
I say not down;
That twain go up, of love, who 've loved their fill,--
To gain love's crown.
Love me, and let my life take up thine own,
As sun the dew.
Come, sit, my queen, for in my heart a throne
Awaits for you!
Scheme | ABXB CBCB DEDE AFAF EGEG HBHB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11111101001 1111 11011101 1111 1101011111 011 11111011111 1111 1101010111 0111 11111111 0111 0101110011 0111 1111010101 1111 1101111101 1111 11111111111 1111 1101111111 1101 1111101101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 756 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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