Analysis of Song Of Long Ago
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
LONG ago, long ago,
When the hawthorn buds were pearly
And the birds sang, late and early,
All the songs that lovers know,
How we lingered in the lane,
Kissed and parted, kissed again,
Parted, laggard foot and slow!
What a pretty world we knew
Dressed in moonlight, dreams and dew,
Long ago, my first sweet sweetheart,
Long ago!
Long ago, long ago,
When the wind was on the river
Where the lights and shadows shiver,
And the streets were all aglow.
In the gaudy gas-lit street
We two parted, sweet, my sweet,
And the crowd went to and fro,
And your veil was wet with tears
For the inevitable years--
Long ago, my last sweet sweetheart,
Long ago!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 1011010 00111010 1011101 1110001 1010101 1010101 1010111 101101 1011111 101 101101 10111010 1010110 0010101 0010111 1110111 0011101 0111111 10010001 1011111 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 652 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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