Analysis of Love's Reveller.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Hard have you won her, and must hold as fast!
She is Love's reveller — those tawny eyes
Are up and down still in warm passion cast,
And woe betide the soul whom they surprise!
Yet is she yours — you deem not for a while.
But have you felt the fiery stress of her?
It is a woman's, yet a serpent's smile
A Cleopatra yields her worshipper.
The cruel sweetness of her beauty lurks
In all her lovers' ruin; none may dare
To toy with her but love like poison works
To madness or the sorrow of despair: —
And you — the Antony of her desire?
Her love is still as a consuming fire.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001111 1111001101 1101101101 0101011101 1111111101 11110100110 1101010101 0010101 0101010101 0101010111 1110111101 1101010101 01010010010 01111001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 576 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 438 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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