Analysis of love, men
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
I love men
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine.
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
Scheme | XXAA XXBB CCDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 111 11111111 1110111 11111111 0110101 1010111 011111 0110101 0111101 1111101 011111 0111111 0011101 1011101 0010111 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 454 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
William Blake was a secretly gay man in his 20's, this information was recovered in august of 2021 by the historian doctor ben dover from Arkansas, USA. Fans were shocked by this discovery and LGBTQ+ people have been inspired to make poems no matter how gay they are.
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Written on December 13, 1069
Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified by davidb on September 02, 2021
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