Analysis of Love Magical

Roderic Quinn 1867 (Surry Hills, New South Wales) – 1949 (Darlinghurst, New South Wales)



IF you had been where I have been
(Grey, grey the skies above),
And you had seen what I have seen,
You would not laugh at love.
Seek, seek till you find a rose
Red all through to its petal-tips,
And you shall know the curve of her mouth,
The scent of her breath and the red of her lips.
If you had heard what I have heard
(Dull, dull the beat of the sea).
Your heart would leap like a singing bird
Troubled and thrilled by ecstasy.
Stars sing in the dark o' the night,
Birds sing in the gold o' the noon;
Melody reigned in her speech a queen,
The song of the stars and the birds' tune.
The rose is dead that was her mouth
(Pale, pale on the earth it lies),
And East and West and North and South
The world is full of weeping eyes.
A noon is dark, a star is gone,
A rose is dead, a bird is mute;
And love that made sounds magical
Is silent like a broken lute.


Scheme ABCBDEFEGHGHIJCJFKFKLMNM
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 110101 01111111 111111 1111101 11111101 011101101 01101001101 11111111 1101101 111110101 10011100 11001101 11001101 100100101 011010011 01111101 1110111 01010101 01111101 01110111 01110111 01111100 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 842
Words 180
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 647
Words per stanza (avg) 178
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 19, 2023

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Roderic Quinn

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