Analysis of Ballade Of Blind Love
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
Who have loved and ceased to love, forget
That ever they loved in their lives, they say;
Only remember the fever and fret,
And the pain of Love, that was all his pay;
All the delight of him passes away
From hearts that hoped, and from lips that met -
Too late did I love you, my love, and yet
I shall never forget till my dying day.
Too late were we 'ware of the secret net
That meshes the feet in the flowers that stray;
There were we taken and snared, Lisette,
In the dungeon of La Fausse Amistie;
Help was there none in the wide world's fray,
Joy was there none in the gift and the debt;
Too late we knew it, too long regret -
I shall never forget till my dying day!
We must live our lives, though the sun be set,
Must meet in the masque where parts we play,
Must cross in the maze of Life's minuet;
Our yea is yea, and our nay is nay:
But while snows of winter or flowers of May
Are the sad year's shroud or coronet,
In the season of rose or of violet,
I shall never forget till my dying day!
Queen, when the clay is my coverlet,
When I am dead, and when you are grey,
Vow, where the grass of the grave is wet,
'I shall never forget till my dying day!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011101 1101101111 1001001001 0011111111 1001111001 111101111 1111111101 11100111101 1101110101 11001001011 101100101 00101111 111100111 1111001001 111111101 11100111101 11110110111 110011111 110011101 10111010111 11111011011 101111101 00101111100 11100111101 1101111 111101111 110110111 11100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,143 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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