Analysis of Your Heart Has Trembled To My Tongue

William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)



Your heart has trembled to my tongue,
Your hands in mine have lain,
Your thought to me has leaned and clung,
Again and yet again,
My dear,
Again and yet again.

Now die the dream, or come the wife,
The past is not in vain,
For wholly as it was your life
Can never be again,
My dear,
Can never be again.


Scheme abaCDC ebeCDC
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 110111 11111101 010101 11 010101 11011101 011101 11011111 110101 11 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 298
Words 64
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley was an English poet, critic and editor, best remembered for his 1875 poem "Invictus". more…

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