Analysis of Love bade me welcome...

Richard Barnes 1947 (Boulder, CO)



Love bade me welcome but
Am I worthy to be near?
‘Draw near to me’
Love said, ‘You shall be me
And I shall serve’.
'I have your heart,
but you have my soul.'


Scheme ABCCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 1110111 1111 111111 0111 1111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 165
Words 38
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Written on October 13, 2023

Submitted by Barneyb on October 27, 2023

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