Analysis of Mine

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) – 1887 (Shortlands, London)

O HOW my heart is beating as her name I keep repeating,
And I drink up joy like wine:
O how my heart is beating as her name I keep repeating,
For the lovely girl is mine!
She's rich, she's fair, beyond compare,
Of noble mind, serene and kind--
And how my heart is beating as her name I keep repeating,
For the lovely girl is mine!

O how my heart is beating as her name I keep repeating,
In a music soft and fine;
O how my heart is beating as her name I keep repeating,
For the girl I love is mine.
She owns no lands, has no white hands,
Her lot is poor, her life obscure;--
Yet how my heart is beating as her name I keep repeating,
For the girl I love is mine!

Scheme AbABxxaB AbABxxaB
Poetic Form
Metre 111111010111010 0111111 111111010111010 1010111 11110101 11010101 011111010111010 1010111 111111010111010 0010101 111111010111010 1011111 11111111 01110101 111111010111010 1011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 668
Words 141
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 249
Words per stanza (avg) 69
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Dinah Maria Craik (; born Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik) was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the mid-Victorian ideals of English middle-class life.  more…

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