Analysis of Spiritual Love
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
Could you but give me all that I desire,
I should be richer, and you no more poor,
Companionship beside the household fire,
And common cares that train one to endure.
'Tis not your senses, but your self, I want,
Kinship of vision, sympathy of mind,
That so the bond be based on adamant,
And Love made fast by sanctities that bind.
Yet do not think insensible my gaze
To delicate loveliness of form and face,
But that I covet in the same embrace
The Spirit's yearnings with the body's grace.
Give me all these, and add, with lengthening years,
The sweet sad smile, and piety of tears.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111010 1111001111 010010110 0101111101 1111011111 111010011 1101111100 01111111 1111010011 110011101 1111000101 0101010101 11110111001 0111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 454 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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