Analysis of Leves Amores
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
I
Your kisses, and the way you curl,
Delicious and distracting girl,
Into one's arms, and round about,
Luxuriously in and out
Twining inextricably, as twine
The clasping tangles of the vine;
Strong to embrace and long to kiss,
And strenuous for the sharper bliss,
Insatiably enamoured of
The ultimate ecstasy of love.
So loving to be loved, so gay
And greedy for our holiday;
And then how prettily you sleep!
You nestle close, and let me keep
My straying fingers in the nest
Of your warm comfortable breast;
And as I lie and dream awake,
Unsleeping for your sleeping sake,
I feel the very pulse and heat
Of your young life-blood beat, and beat
With mine; and you are mine, my sweet!
II
The little bedroom papered red,
The gas's faint malodorous light,
And one beside me in the bed,
Who chatters, chatters, half the night.
I drowse and listen, drowse again,
And still, although I would not hear,
Her stream of chatter, like the rain,
Is falling, falling on my ear.
The bed-clothes stifle me, I ache
With weariness, my eyelids prick;
I hate, until I long to break,
That clock for its tyrannic tick.
And still beside me, through the heat
Of this September night, I feel
Her body's warmth upon the sheet
Burn through my limbs from head to heel.
And still I see her profile lift
Its tiresome line above the hair,
That streams, a dark and tumbled drift,
Across the pillow that I share
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11000111 01000101 01110101 1001 100100011 0110101 11010111 010010101 111 010010011 11011111 01011010 011111 11010111 11010001 11110001 01110101 111101 11010101 11111101 11011111 1 0101101 010111 01011001 111101 11010101 0111111 01110101 11010111 01110111 1100111 11011111 111111 01011101 11010111 01010101 11111111 0111011 110010101 11010101 01010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,348 |
Words | 252 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 27, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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