Analysis of Oh! if thou wilt not give thine heart
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793 (Liverpool, Lancashire) – 1835 (Dublin, County Dublin)
Oh! if thou wilt not give thine heart,
Give back my own to me,
For if in thine I have no part,
Why should mine dwell with thee?
Yet no! this mournful love of mine
I will not from me cast;
Let me but dream 'twill win me thine
By its deep truth at last!
Can aught so fond, so faithful, live
Through years without reply?
Oh! if thy heart thou wilt not give,
Give me a thought, a sigh?
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111111 111111 11011111 111111 11110111 111111 11111111 111111 11111101 110101 11111111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 394 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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