Analysis of Love's Blindness
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
Now do I know that Love is blind, for I
Can see no beauty on this beauteous earth,
No life, no light, no hopefulness, no mirth,
Pleasure nor purpose, when thou art not nigh.
Thy absence exiles sunshine from the sky,
Seres Spring's maturity, checks Summer's birth,
Leaves linnet's pipe as sad as plover's cry,
And makes me in abundance find but dearth.
But when thy feet flutter the dark, and thou
With orient eyes dawnest on my distress,
Suddenly sings a bird on every bough,
The heavens expand, the earth grows less and less,
The ground is buoyant as the ether now,
And all looks lovely in thy loveliness.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 111101111 1111110011 1011011111 11011101 1101001101 11111111 0110010111 1111100101 110111101 10010111001 01001011101 0111010101 01110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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