Analysis of Love in the Guise of Frindship
Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)
Talk not of love, it gives me pain,
For love has been my foe;
He bound me in an iron chain,
And plung'd me deep in woe.
But friendship's pure and lasting joys,
My heart was form'd to prove;
There, welcome win and wear the prize,
But never talk of love.
Your friendship much can make me blest,
O why that bliss destroy?
Why urge the only, one request
You know I will deny?
Your thought, if Love must harbour there,
Conceal it in that thought;
Nor cause it in that thought;
Nor cause me from my bosom tear
The very friend I sought.
Scheme | ABAB XXXX CXCX DEEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 111111 11101101 011101 1110101 111111 11010101 110111 11011111 111101 11010101 111101 11111101 011011 111011 11111101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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