Analysis of To One Who Pleaded For Candour In Love
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
HERE is the dim enchanted wood
Your face, a mystery divine,
But half revealed, half understood,
Appears the counterpart of mine.
Beyond the wood the daylight lies;
Cruel and hard, it lies in wait
To steal the magic from your eyes
And from your lips the thrill of fate.
Ah, stay with me a little while
Here, where the magic shadows rest,
Where all my world is in your smile
And all my heaven on your breast.
Ah no!--cling close, what need to move,
What need to advance or explore?
We came here blindly, led by love,
Who will not lead us any more.
Thank God that here we two have stood,
Thank God this shade was ours to win;
Time with his axe has marked our wood
And he will let the daylight in.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG AHAH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 11010001 1101101 0101011 0101011 10011101 11010111 01110111 11110101 1101011 11111011 01110111 11111111 11101101 11110111 11111101 11111111 111111011 111111101 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 682 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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