Analysis of Song Of The Desert Lark



Love, love, in vain
We count the days of Spring.
Lost is all love's pain,
Lost the songs we sing.
Sunshine and Summer rain,
Winter and Spring again
Still the years shall bring,
But we die.

Love, what a noon
Of happy love was ours!
Grief came too soon,
Touched the Autumn flowers,
Grief and the doubt of death,
Mixed with the roses' breath.
Darkly the Winter lowers,
And we die.

His torch, love, the Sun
Turns to the stormy West,
Like a fair dream begun
Changing to jest.
Love, while our souls are one,
Still let us sing the Sun,
Sing and forget the rest
And so die.


Scheme ABABAABC DEDEFFEC GHGHGGHC
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 110111 11111 10111 10101 100101 10111 111 1101 1101110 1111 101010 100111 110101 1001010 011 11101 110101 101101 1011 1110111 111101 100101 011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 550
Words 111
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 144
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

 · 1840 · Petworth House
 · 1922

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was an English poet and writer. more…

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