Analysis of The Pleasures Of Love
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
I do not care for kisses. 'Tis a debt
We paid for the first privilege of love.
These are the rains of April which have wet
Our fallow hearts and forced their germs to move.
Now the green corn has sprouted. Each new day
Brings better pleasures, a more dear surprise,
The blade, the ear, the harvest--and our way
Leads through a region wealthy grown and wise.
We now compare our fortunes. Each his store
Displays to kindred eyes of garnered grain,
Two happy farmers, learned in love's lore,
Who weigh and touch and argue and complain--
Dear endless argument! Yet sometimes we
Even as we argue kiss. There! Let it be.
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Metre | 1111110101 111011011 1101110111 1011011111 1011110111 1101001101 01010100101 1101010101 11011010111 0111011101 110101011 1101010001 1101001011 10111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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