Analysis of This, I Promise



Once you've asked: how long will stay beside you?
The sun will rise and set not my love will melt
Dusk to dawn shall come this still say-
Won't live a single second without you.

At times turned sour and bitter this I say
Never think or claim love has diminished...
Not in wildest imaginations has wanned a bit
Such devotion I have of you, my dearest!

By fate we'll part ways; don't doubt my love!
Wherever I am won't lose memory of you,
It's an immortal love gotten my bones...
Either oblivion or death can't rip it out of me.

Need not to stay longer or live on earth together
Under any circumstances I bid goodbye today;
Weep not and hold on to my promise...
In heaven I wait to continue our love forever.


Scheme AXBA BXXX XAXX CBXC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111011 01110111111 11111111 1101010011 11110010111 1011111010 101000101101 10101111110 111111111 010111110011 1101011011 10010011111111 1111101111010 101010011101 110111110 010111010101010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 691
Words 135
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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