Analysis of Love And Knowledge
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THOUGH you and I so long have been so near--
Have felt each other's heart-beats hour by hour,
Have watered, plucked, and trampled passion's flower,
Have known so many days so very dear--
Yet still through every hour of every year
We have sought to win and failed to win the dower
Of perfect insight, and to gain the power
To see what we are, and not what we appear.
Yet you desire such knowledge--would possess,
You say, completion of love; if that were won
--Ah! by it might not haply be undone
The little measure of joy we knew before?
Though we should swear we loved each other more,
How surely we should love each other less!
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Metre | 1101111111 111101110110 1101010110 1111011101 1111001011001 11111011101 1011011010 11111011101 11010110101 11010111101 111111101 01010111101 1111111101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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