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.
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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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