Sometimes I Wonder
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Sometimes I wonder if you guess
The deep impassioned tenderness
Which overflows my heart;
The love I never dare confess;
Yet hard, yea, harder to repress
Than tears too fain to start.
Sometimes I ponder, O my sweet,
The things I'll tell you when we meet;
But straightway at your sight
My heart's blood oozes to my feet
Like thawing waters in the heat,
Confused with too much light.
I hardly know, when you are near,
If it is love, or joy, or fear
Which fills my languid frame;
Enveloped in your atmosphere,
My dark self seems to disappear,
A moth entombed in flame.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBAAB CCDCCD EEFEEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 106 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
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