Analysis of Never To See Or Hear Her
Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)
Never to see or hear her,
never to name her aloud,
but faithfully always to wait for her
and love her.
To open my arms and, tired of waiting,
to close them on nothing,
but still always to stretch them out to her
and to love her.
To only be able to stretch them out to her,
and then to be consumed in tears,
but always to shed these tears,
always to love her.
Never to see or hear her,
never to name her aloud,
but with a love that grows ever more tender,
always to love her. Always!
Scheme | ABaa ccaa adda ABax |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1011110 1011001 110011110 010 11011010110 111110 111111110 0110 110110111110 01110101 111111 1110 1011110 1011001 11011110110 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 475 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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