Analysis of The Fruit Of Love's Desire.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



The fruit of love's desire is sweet
For any man and maid to eat.
However ripened in time's air,
No other can with it compare.
'Tis like those apples 'of such price,
No tree can ever bear them twice;'
And only two may share it, so
That they would all its sweetness know.
It is so fine and fair a thing
And eaten with such passioning,
The eaters seem themselves to be
Fed on each other's mystery;
And when they have the sweet thing ate
Sigh for the lack of all things yet,
For once 'tis bitten to the core
The dearest dream of life is o'er,
And man and maid within time's waste
Another such may never taste.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGHIJKK
Poetic Form
Metre 011101011 11010111 1010011 11011101 11110111 11110111 01011111 11111101 11110101 010111 01010111 11110100 01110111 11011111 11110101 010111110 01010111 01011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 596
Words 122
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 466
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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