Analysis of A Song of Love.



"Hey, rose, just born
Twin to a thorn;
Was't so with you, O Love and Scorn?

"Sweet eyes that smiled,
Now wet and wild;
O Eye and Tear - mother and child.

"Well: Love and Pain
Be kinsfolk twain:
Yet would, Oh would I could love again."


Scheme AAA BBB CCC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1101 111111101 1111 1101 11011001 1101 111 111111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 232
Words 50
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Sidney Lanier

 · 1842 · Macon, Georgia
 · 1881 · Lynn

Sidney Lanier was a poet, writer, composer, critic, professor of literature at Johns Hopkins and first flutist with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in Baltiimore. He wrote the Centennial cantata for the opening ceremony of the 1876 Centennial celebration in Philadelphia. more…

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