Analysis of Choosing
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
The thrush that, yet alone, pipes for his mate
Knows she will come in time to build the nest,
Knows she'll be she his tiny soul loves best;
'Tis love-time at the hawthorn blossom's date:
And the new flower-cups bare their hearts and wait
While careless breezes bring them love for guest;
And Youth laughs ready for the glad unrest;
But Love that chooses lingers desolate.
And I, who seek, and yearn for love to stir,
And I, who seek, and cannot love but one
And have not known her being, nor can find,
I take my homeless way for sake of her;
And love-time's here, and love-time will be done:
Birds end all singing in the autumn wind.
Scheme | ABBAABBX CDECDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011111 1111011101 1111110111 11110111 00110111101 1101011111 0111010101 1111010100 0111011111 0111010111 0111010111 1111011110 0111011111 1111000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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