Analysis of The Way Of Love
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THE butterfly loves the rose,
He flutters around her bed,
Till the soft curled leaves unclose,
And she raises her darling head.
He whispers of dawn and of dew,
Of love, and the heart of love,
Of worship, timid and true,
And she takes no joy thereof.
But when, through the noon's blind heat,
The arrogant bee flaunts by,
She yields him her heart's hid sweet,
And he leaves her alone, to die.
The depth of her dying bliss
Her grief-white butterfly knows:
And the bee laughs low in the kiss
Of another, a redder rose.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA |
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Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
Metre | 010101 1100101 101111 01100101 11011011 1100111 1101001 011111 1110111 0100111 1110111 01100111 0110101 011101 00111001 10100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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