Analysis of Love
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
My soul; is raying like a star,
My heart is happier than a bird,
And all because, through fortune’s jar,
I hear one little word.
I feel as if all life and might
Had started on a loftier course,
As if all passion and delight
Were deepened at the source.
I feel as if the very air
Was breathed from out the heart of love,
And in my heart, still rapture rare,
Sat brooding like a dove.
O beauty! Even through a word
What powers are thine to raise and bless!
O love! A seraph’s voice is heard
In thy confiding Yes!
Love is God’s messenger divine,
And nature, tending up to God,
Shall breathe His clear air pure and fine
Whatever love hath trod.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEF BGBG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111101 111100101 01011101 111101 11111101 110101001 11110001 010101 11110101 11110111 00111101 110101 11010101 110111101 1101111 010101 11110001 01010111 11111101 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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