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.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | abcdedebfEebgbheiefE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 158 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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