Analysis of Come, Let Us Walk
Come, let us walk
Beneath the tufts of the morning flower,
In the rapturous cadence of the boundless bower;
Come, my beloved, and let us talk
Of sanctified things— It is the hour.
I shall clothe your fingers
With silver rings.
And there, in the alcove of ambrosial air,
In the caress of the summer wind,
Where a moonlit fountain lingers,
Beneath the canopy of a tamarind,
Allow me to undress you there.
And slowly, one by one,
Your immaculate, white veils
Shall clothe the fresh, green grass.
At first, the last of the scattered sun
Shall make you wonder and hesitate;
But your slightly given protests come too late—
For a weak objection softly fails
When halcyon scents commingle with the flesh—
All scruples shall pass,
And our arms shall mesh.
Come, let us walk
Beneath the tufts of the morning flower;
Come, let us talk
Of sanctified things,
Of bright, silver rings,
Of the ardent heart with its flutterings—
Come, my lover, it is the hour.
John Lars Zwerenz
Scheme | ABbabcdefcfeghigjjhkikABaddcb c |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1111 0101101010 0010010101010 11010111 11111010 111110 1101 0100110101 000110101 1011010 010100101 01110111 010111 1010011 110111 110110101 11110010 1110101111 101010101 11001010101 11011 010111 1111 0101101010 1111 111 11101 10101111 111011010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 953 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 29, 1 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 379 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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