Analysis of Romance
Claude McKay 1889 (Clarendon Parish) – 1948 (Chicago)
To clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed,
Scented and warm against my beating breast;
To whisper soft and quivering your name,
And drink the passion burning in your frame;
To lie at full length, taut, with cheek to cheek,
And tease your mouth with kisses till you speak
Love words, mad words, dream words, sweet senseless words,
Melodious like notes of mating birds;
To hear you ask if I shall love always,
And myself answer: Till the end of days;
To feel your easeful sigh of happiness
When on your trembling lips I murmur: Yes;
It is so sweet. We know it is not true.
What matters it? The night must shed her dew.
We know it is not true, but it is sweet --
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Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE XX FF GG |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1111011111 1001011101 1101010011 0101010011 1111111111 0111110111 1111111101 0100111101 111111111 011010111 111111100 11110011101 1111111111 1101011101 1111111111 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 699 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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