Analysis of Love And Life
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
LOVE only sings when Love is young,
When Love is young and still at play,
How shall we count the sweet songs sung
When Love and Joy kept holiday?
But now Love has to earn his bread
By lifelong stress and toil of tears,
He finds his nest of song-birds dead
That sang so sweet in other years.
For Love's a man now, strong and brave,
To fight for you, for you to live,
And Love, that once such bright songs gave,
Has better things than songs to give;
He gives you now a lifelong faith,
A hand to help in joy or pain,
And he will sing no more, till Death
Shall come to make him young again!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11110111 11110111 1101110 11111111 11110111 11111111 11110101 11011101 11111111 01111111 11011111 11110111 01110111 01111111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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