Analysis of Life In A Love

Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)



Escape me?
Never--
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,--
So the Chase takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me--
Ever
Removed!


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Poetic Form
Metre 011 10 01 11110111 111010111 10100101 10101101001 111011111 111110101 1111111101 1111111101 111110111 111101101 0101100101 101111111 111111101 111100101 110011111 1011110111 111 10 01
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 681
Words 147
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 514
Words per stanza (avg) 144
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 08, 2023

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