Song

Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)



I.

Nay but you, who do not love her,
  Is she not pure gold, my mistress?
Holds earth aught---speak truth---above her?
  Aught like this tress, see, and this tress,
And this last fairest tress of all,
  So fair, see, ere I let it fall?

II.

Because, you spend your lives in praising;
  To praise, you search the wide world over:
Then why not witness, calmly gazing,
  If earth holds aught---speak truth---above her?
Above this tress, and this, I touch
  But cannot praise, I love so much!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 24, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAXBB CACADD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 483
Words 88
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6

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