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 |
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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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