Analysis of Song

William Cosmo Monkhouse 1840 (London) – 1901



WHO calls me bold because I won my love,  
   And did not pine,  
And waste my life with secret pain, but strove  
   To make him mine?  

I us’d no arts; ’t was Nature’s self that taught
   My eye to speak,  
And bid the burning blush to paint unsought  
   My flashing cheek;  

That made my voice to tremble when I bid  
   My love “Goodby,”
So weak that every other sound was hid,  
   Except a sigh.  

Oh, was it wrong to use the truth I knew,  
   That hearts are mov’d,  
And spring warm-struck with life and love anew,
   By being lov’d?  

One night there came a tear, that, big and loth,  
   Stole ’neath my brow.  
’T was thus I won my heart’s own heart, and both  
   Are happy now.


Scheme XAXA BCBC DEDE FBFB XGXG
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1111011111 0111 0111110111 1111 11111110111 1111 010101111 1101 1111110111 111 11110010111 0101 1111110111 1111 0111110101 1101 1111011101 1111 11111111101 1101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 706
Words 130
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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