Analysis of Duet
1. Is it the wind of the dawn that I hear
in the pine overhead?
2. No; but the voice of the deep as it hollows
the cliffs of the land.
1. Is there a voice coming up with the
voice of the deep from the strand,
Once coming up with a Song in the
flush of the glimmering red?
2. Love that is born of the deep coming
up with the sun from the sea.
1. Love that can shape or can shatter a
life till the life shall have fled?
2. Nay, let us welcome him, Love that
can lift up a life from the dead.
1. Keep him away from the lone little isle.
Let us be, let us be.
2. Nay, let him make it his own, let him
reign in it - he, it is he,
Love that is born of the deep coming
up with the sun from the sea.
Scheme | abcdedebfEebgbheiefE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101111 001101 11011011110 01101 110110110 1101101 110110100 1101001 111110110 1101101 111111100 1101111 11110111 11101101 1101101101 111111 111111111 1011111 111110110 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 509 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 156 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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