Analysis of Love’s Lord
Edward Dowden 1843 (Cork) – 1913
WHEN weight of all the garner’d years
Bows me, and praise must find relief
In harvest-song, and smiles and tears
Twist in the band that binds my sheaf;
Thou known Unknown, dark, radiant sea
In whom we live, in whom we move,
My spirit must lose itself in Thee,
Crying a name—Life, Light, or Love.
| Scheme | XAXA BXBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1111011 11011101 01010101 10011111 110111001 01110111 110110101 10011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 327 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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