Analysis of The Bond.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Love me for Love's sake till the dream is done,
And when we waken let us part for aye!
No bond but this; it is the better way,
For life spun so may easy be unspun,
The gain or loss directly reckoned on
What is and was; since marriage is no more
When either heart is like a sapless core
That has no sense of the maturing sun.
All comes at last to this, and surely we
Shall never waken if the dream is true,
Never put by the heart's reality,
Nor either ever find another who
Shall take from us the tender poesy
Which you have found in me, and I in you.
| Scheme | ABCADEEAFGFGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110111 0111011111 1111110101 111111011 0111010101 1101110111 110111011 1111100101 1111110101 1101010111 10110110 1101010101 11110101 1111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 545 |
| Words | 116 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 423 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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