Analysis of One Way Of Love
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
All June I bound the rose in sheaves.
Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves
And strew them where Pauline may pass.
She will not turn aside? Alas!
Let them lie. Suppose they die?
The chance was they might take her eye.
How many a month I strove to suit
These stubborn fingers to the lute!
To-day I venture all I know.
She will not hear my music? So!
Break the string; fold music's wing:
Suppose Pauline had bade me sing!
My whole life long I learned to love.
This hour my utmost art I prove
And speak my passion---heaven or hell?
She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well!
Lose who may---I still can say,
Those who win heaven, blest are they!
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF XXGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11111101 01110111 11110101 1110111 01111101 110011111 11010101 11110111 11111101 1011101 01011111 11111111 11011111 011101011 111111011 1111111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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