Analysis of A Woman's Last Word
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
Let's contend no more, Love,
Strive nor weep:
All be as before, Love,
---Only sleep!
What so wild as words are?
I and thou
In debate, as birds are,
Hawk on bough!
See the creature stalking
While we speak!
Hush and hide the talking,
Cheek on cheek!
What so false as truth is,
False to thee?
Where the serpent's tooth is
Shun the tree---
Where the apple reddens
Never pry---
Lest we lose our Edens,
Eve and I.
Be a god and hold me
With a charm!
Be a man and fold me
With thine arm!
Teach me, only teach, Love
As I ought
I will speak thy speech, Love,
Think thy thought---
Meet, if thou require it,
Both demands,
Laying flesh and spirit
In thy hands.
That shall be to-morrow
Not to-night:
I must bury sorrow
Out of sight:
---Must a little weep, Love,
(Foolish me!)
And so fall asleep, Love,
Loved by thee.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GIXI HJHJ AKAK XLXL MNMN AHAH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101111 111 111011 101 111111 101 001111 111 101010 111 101010 111 111111 111 101011 101 10101 101 1111010 101 101011 101 101011 111 111011 111 111111 111 111101 101 101010 011 111110 111 111010 111 101011 101 011011 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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