Analysis of The Heart Of Sadness
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
IT is not, Dear, because I am alone,
For I am lonelier when the rest are near,
But that my place against your heart has grown
Too dear to dream of when you are not here.
I weep because my thoughts no more may roam
To meet, half-way, your longing thoughts of me,
To turn with these and spread glad wings for home,
For the dear haven where I fain would be.
When first we loved, I loved to steal away
To show to solitude what love could do,
To fill the waste space of the night and day
With thousand-wingèd dreams that flew to you;
But now through many tears I am grown wise
To know how mighty and how dear love is;
I dare not turn to him my longing eyes,
Nor even in dreams lean out my face to his,
Because, if once I let my caged heart go
Through dreams to seek you, I should follow too
Through wrong and right, through wisdom and through woe,
Through heaven and hell, until I won to you!
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG HEHE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111011101 111110111 1111011111 1111111111 1101111111 1111110111 1111011111 1011011111 1111111101 111101111 1101110101 1101111111 1111011111 1111001111 1111111101 11001111111 0111111111 1111111101 1101110011 11001011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 896 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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