Analysis of Love’s Unity
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
How can I tell thee when I love thee best?
In rapture or repose? how shall I say?
I only know I love thee every way,
Plumed for love's flight, or folded in love's nest.
See, what is day but night bedewed with rest?
And what the night except the tired-out day?
And 'tis love's difference, not love's decay,
If now I dawn, now fade, upon thy breast.
Self-torturing sweet! Is't not the self-same sun
Wanes in the west that flameth in the east,
His fervour nowise altered nor decreased?
So rounds my love, returning where begun,
And still beginning, never most nor least,
But fixedly various, all love's parts in one.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDDCDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 0101011111 11011111001 1111110011 111111111 01010101011 0111001101 1111110111 110011110111 100111001 11110101 1111010101 0101010111 1110011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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