Analysis of Love's Gleaning Tide
William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)
Draw not away thy hands, my love,
With wind alone the branches move,
And though the leaves be scant above
The Autumn shall not shame us.
Say; Let the world wax cold and drear,
What is the worst of all the year
But life, and what can hurt us, dear,
Or death, and who shall blame us?
Ah, when the summer comes again
How shall we say, we sowed in vain?
The root was joy, the stem was pain
The ear a nameless blending.
The root is dead and gone, my love,
The stem's a rod our truth to prove;
The ear is stored for nought to move
Till heaven and earth have ending.
Scheme | ABAC DDDC XEEF ABBF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11010101 01011101 0101111 11011101 11011101 11011111 1101111 11010101 11111101 01110111 0101010 01110111 010110111 01111111 11001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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