Analysis of Song

Victoria Sackville-West 1862 (Paris) – 1936 (Roedean, Sussex)



If I had only loved your flesh
And careless damned your soul to Hell,
I might have laughed and loved afresh,
And loved as lightly and as well,
And little more to tell.

But since to clasp your soul I strove,
(That mountebank, that fugitive)
Anrl poured the river of my love
Through meshes that, like Danae's sieve,
Drained all I had to give,

Now nightly by the tamarisks
I pace, and watch the risen moon
Litter the sea with silver disks;
And pray of night one only boon:
Let my release be soon.


Scheme ABABB XCXCC DEDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 01011111 11110101 01110011 010111 11111111 111100 11010111 1101111 111111 11010100 11010101 10011101 01111101 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 487
Words 96
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Victoria Sackville-West

Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Lady Sackville married her first cousin Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville. Their daughter was the writer, poet and gardener Vita Sackville-West. more…

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