Analysis of Song - Oh, you cannot prove false to me, my love
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Oh, you cannot prove false to me, my love,
Think how I have confided in thee,
I have prized thy love all else above,
Oh, you cannot be false to me.
Could you chill the first warm overflow of the heart,
Freeze the fountain you first taught to flow;
Could you act a cruel, a treacherous part,
Could you be the herald of woe.
I will not believe it, but still will repose
Ev'ry hope of my heart upon thine;
I will not believe you could blight the young rose
That but blossom'd to bloom on thy shrine.
I'll believe that the sun will forsake his day throne,
The moon her night palace of blue,
That blushes, sighs, smiles, are no longer love's own,
Ere I will believe you untrue.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1110111111 111101001 111111101 11101111 11101110101 101011111 11101001001 11101011 11101111101 11111011 11101111011 111011111 101101101111 01011011 11011111011 11101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 701 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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