Analysis of Madrigal
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
May we not love as others do,
Dearest, because we love,
A mistress I, a husband you?
Nay, our delights must prove
Either the double or the part
Of those who love with single heart.
Sweet friend, I find not any wrong
In your divided soul;
Nor you, that mine should not belong
Entire to one control.
Let simple lovers if they will
Contemn us, we outwit them still.
For small and poor and cold indeed
Is any heart that can
Hold but the measure of the need,
The joy, of any man.
Both spare and prodigal were we,
To love but you, to love but me.
Scheme | AXAXBB CDCDEE FGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 100111 01010101 1100111 10010101 11111101 11111101 010101 11111101 0101101 11010111 111111 11010101 110111 11010101 011101 11010001 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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