Analysis of My Delight and Thy Delight
Robert Seymour Bridges 1844 (Walmer, Kent) – 1930 (Boars Hill, Berkshire)
My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night:
My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,
Leaping live, and laughing higher:
Thro' the everlasting strife
In the mystery of life.
Love, from whom the world begun,
Hath the secret of the sun.
Love can tell, and love alone,
Whence the million stars were strewn,
Why each atom knows its own,
How, in spite of woe and death,
Gay is life, and sweet is breath:
This he taught us, this we knew,
Happy in his science true,
Hand in hand as we stood
'Neath the shadows of the wood,
Heart to heart as we lay
In the dawning of the day.
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Metre | 1010101 1011101 0010101 101001010 10101110 10101010 100101 0010011 1110101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1110111 1011101 1110111 1111111 1001101 101111 101101 111111 0010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2, 2, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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