Analysis of Declaration
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Child, I will give you rings to wear,
And, if you love them, dainty dresses,
Flowers for your bosom and your hair,
And, if you love them, fond caresses;
And I will give you of my days,
And I will leave, when you require it,
My dreams, my books, my wonted ways,
Content if only you desire it.
Love's captive, now his fugitive,
All this I give you, for my part.
I ask but what I cannot give,
I ask no more than this: your heart.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111111 011111010 101110011 011111010 01111111 011111101 1111111 1011010101 11011100 11111111 11111101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 425 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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