Analysis of Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her

Christopher John Brennan 1870 (Haymarket, New South Wales) – 1932 (Lewisham, New South Wales)



If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF GGXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11001111 11110101 111010101 11110111 01011101 01110111 11011111 01110001 11111101 010101111 010110101 11010101 11110101 11110111 11110111 01011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 577
Words 115
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Christopher John Brennan

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