Analysis of If Only Once
If I should never feel the kind
Of love I had for her
With any other girl I find,
I hope that won't deter
My hope that God will help me know
Her love was life's reward
Because I trusted Him to show
The love of God, my Lord!
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110101 111110 11010111 111101 11111111 011101 01110111 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Love
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Written on August 14, 2023
Submitted by stevec.24118 on August 14, 2023
Modified by stevec.24118 on August 14, 2023
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