Analysis of To One Slain In Absence

Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)



AND so we parted, love, oblivious
 That we were parting! With our laughter light,
 Flouting the future, on the morrow bright
 At our old tryst we would once more discuss
 The wonder of our love miraculous:
 While even then Fate waited, swift to smite.
 So you have gone, large-eyed, across the Night,
 And I stand straining widowed arms! Yet thus
 I want your memory—no tears, no pain,
 No presage of chill death, nor any fears;
 Your wide glance bridging all eternity
 With one calm faith. Is't not an augury
 That somewhere in the tangle of the years
 Your laughter and your lips I'll find again?


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 608
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 459
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Arthur Henry Adams

Arthur Henry Adams was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.  more…

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