Analysis of Night Poetry 2

John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)



Oh! no! I would not love again
E'en had I still the power given;
I would not risk its pain and fears
E'en though its joys were taste of heaven.
A breath may blight the heart we prize;
A whisper weave deceit around it;
And then our heart's most tender chord
Is wounded by the chain that bound it.

'Tis hard to see death's chilling hand
The life-strings of our treasure sever:
But harder still when loving hearts
Are rudely rent apart for ever.
But ah! such griefs are naught to those
That fill the heart where passion burned
Till falsehood burst the mask and showed
That love by heartless scorn returned


Scheme XAXAXBXB XCXCXDXD
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 1111101010 11111101 1111101110 01110111 010101011 011011101 110101111 11111101 0111101010 11011101 110101110 11111111 11011101 1110101 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 595
Words 114
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 238
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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