Analysis of When Love Is Over
Laurence Hope 1865 ( Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire) – 1904 ( Madras)
Song of Khan Zada
Only in August my heart was aflame,
Catching the scent of your Wind-stirred hair,
Now, though you spread it to soften my sleep
Through the night, I should hardly care.
Only last August I drank that water
Because it had chanced to cool your hands;
When love is over, how little of love
Even the lover understands!
| Scheme | X XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 1001011101 100111111 1111111011 10111101 1011011110 011111111 1111011011 1001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 330 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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