Analysis of Ballade Of Forgotten Loves
Arthur Grissom 1869 (Payson, Illinois) – 1901
Some poets sing of sweethearts dead,
Some sing of true loves far away;
Some sing of those that others wed,
And some of idols turned to clay.
I sing a pensive roundelay
To sweethearts of a doubtful lot,
The passions vanished in a day,
The little loves that I've forgot.
For, as the happy years have sped,
And golden dreams have changed to gray,
How oft the flame of love was fed
By glance, or smile, from Maud or May,
When wayward Cupid was at play;
Mere fancies, formed of who knows what,
But still my debt I ne'er can pay,
The little loves that I've forgot.
O joyous hours forever fled!
O sudden hopes that would not stay!
Held only by the slender thread
Of memory that's all astray.
Their very names I cannot say.
Time's will is done, I know them not;
But blessings on them all, I pray,
The little loves that I've forgot.
Sweetheart, why foolish fears betray?
Ours is the one true lovers' knot;
Note well the burden of my lay,
The little loves that I've forgot.
Scheme | ababxcbC ababbxbC ababbcbC bcbC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 11111101 11111101 01110111 110101 1110101 01010001 01011101 11010111 01011111 11011111 11111111 11010111 11011111 11111111 01011101 110100101 11011111 11010101 11001101 11011101 11111111 11011111 01011101 1110101 101011101 11010111 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 954 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 27, 2023
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