Analysis of Another Way Of Love

Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)



June was not over
      Though past the fall,
    And the best of her roses
      Had yet to blow,
      When a man I know
    (But shall not discover,
      Since ears are dull,
    And time discloses)
Turned him and said with a man's true air,
Half sighing a smile in a yawn, as 'twere,---
``If I tire of your June, will she greatly care?''

Well, dear, in-doors with you!
      True! serene deadness
    Tries a man's temper.
      What's in the blossom
      June wears on her bosom?
    Can it clear scores with you?
      Sweetness and redness.
    _Eadem semper!_
Go, let me care for it greatly or slightly!
If June mend her bower now, your hand left unsightly
By plucking the roses,---my June will do rightly.

And after, for pastime,
      If June be refulgent
    With flowers in completeness,
      All petals, no prickles,
      Delicious as trickles
    Of wine poured at mass-time,---
      And choose One indulgent
    To redness and sweetness:
Or if, with experience of man and of spider,
June use my June-lightning, the strong insect-ridder,
And stop the fresh film-work,---why, June will consider.


Scheme AXBCCAXBDAD EBAFFEGAHHH IJGBXIJGAAA
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 1101 0011010 1111 10111 111010 1111 01010 110110111 1100100111 111011111101 110111 1011 10110 10010 111010 111111 10010 11 11111110110 1110101111010 110010111110 01011 1111 1100010 11011 010110 111111 011010 110010 1110100110110 11111001110 010111111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,113
Words 188
Sentences 15
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 11, 11, 11
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 256
Words per stanza (avg) 59
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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