Analysis of Liebesweh

Dora Wilcox 1873 (Christchurch) – 1953 (Neutral Bay)



AH, my heart, the storm and sadness!  
 Wind that moans, uncomforted,  
Requiem for Love that’s dead’  
   Love that’s dead!  
 Leafless trees that sough and sigh,          
 Gloom of earth, and grey of sky,  
Ah, my heart, what storm and sadness!  

Ah, my heart, those sweet Septembers!  
 Ah, the glory and the glow  
 Of the Spring-tides long ago,          
   Long ago!  
 Gleam of gold, and glint of green  
 On the grassy hillsides seen,  
Ah, my heart, those sweet Septembers!  

Ah, my heart, on sweet soft pinions,          
 Spring, the lov’d one, hovers nigh,  
 She shall settle by-and-by,  
   By-and-by!  
 But the hills shall shine in vain,  
 Love, alas, comes not again,          
Ah, my heart, on sweet soft pinions!


Scheme abbbcca AdddeeA AcccxxA
Poetic Form
Metre 11101010 1111 1001111 111 1011101 1110111 11111010 111111 1010001 1011101 101 1110111 101011 111111 1111111 1011101 1110101 101 1011101 1011101 1111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 731
Words 115
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 161
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dora Wilcox

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