Analysis of One And Two
Will Carleton 1845 (Hudson) – 1912
I.
If you to me be cold,
Or I be false to you,
The world will go on, I think,
Just as it used to do;
The clouds will flirt with the moon,
The sun will kiss the sea,
The wind to the trees will whisper,
And laugh at you and me;
But the sun will not shine so bright,
The clouds will not seem so white,
To one, as they will to two;
So I think you had better be kind,
And I had best be true,
And let the old love go on,
Just as it used to do.
II.
If the whole of a page be read,
If a book be finished through,
Still the world may read on, I think,
Just as it used to do;
For other lovers will con
The pages that we have passed,
And the treacherous gold of the binding
Will glitter unto the last.
But lids have a lonely look,
And one may not read the book--
It opens only to two;
So I think you had better be kind,
And I had best be true,
And let the reading go on,
Just as it used to do.
III.
If we who have sailed together
Flit out of each other's view,
The world will sail on, I think,
Just as it used to do;
And we may reckon by stars
That flash from different skies,
And another of love's pirates
May capture my lost prize;
But ships long time together
Can better the tempest weather
Than any other two;
So I think you had better be kind,
And I had best be true,
That we together may sail,
Just as we used to do.
Scheme | axbcBxdedffbGBhB axbcBhixijjbGBhB aebcBxkxkeebGBxb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111111 111111 0111111 111111 0111101 011101 01101110 011101 10111111 0111111 1111111 111111011 011111 0101111 111111 1 10110111 1011101 10111111 111111 1101011 0101111 0010011010 1101001 1110101 0111101 1101011 111111011 011111 0101011 111111 1 11111010 1111101 0111111 111111 0111011 1111001 00101110 110111 1111010 11001010 110101 111111011 011111 1101011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,444 |
Words | 283 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 16, 16 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 327 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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