Analysis of O My Love Red Red Rose
Tomorrow will be today tomorrow,
today will be yesterday.
This happiness will be sorrow
when 'Goodbye' you, Love, say.
O my Love, rose like red,
if this love once hatred-
why have we come so close?
O my Love, red red rose!
| Scheme | ABAB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01110101 011110 11001110 11111 111111 111110 111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on June 11, 2015
Modified on March 14, 2023
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