Analysis of I swear to you, Love, by your arrows
Gaspara Stampa 1523 (Padua) – 1554 (Venice)
I swear to you, Love, by your arrows,
And by your powerful holy flame,
I care not if by one I’m maimed,
My heart burned, wasted by the other:
However far through times past or coming,
There never was nor will be woman
Whomever of them you wish to name,
Could know such sharpness, such devouring:
For there’s a virtue born from suffering,
That dims and conquers the sense of pain,
So that it’s barely felt, seems scarcely hurting.
No! This, that torments soul and body again,
This is the real fear presaging my dying:
What if my fire be only straw and flame?
Scheme | XAXXBXAB BXBXBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111110 011100101 11111111 111101010 101111110 110111110 010111111 1111010100 1101011100 110100111 11110111010 1111101001 11011100110 11110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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