Lost Mistress, The
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
I.
All's over, then: does truth sound bitter
As one at first believes?
Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter
About your cottage eaves!
II.
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,
I noticed that, to-day;
One day more bursts them open fully
---You know the red turns grey.
III.
To-morrow we meet the same then, dearest?
May I take your hand in mine?
Mere friends are we,---well, friends the merest
Keep much that I resign:
IV.
For each glance of the eye so bright and black,
Though I keep with heart's endeavour,---
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,
Though it stay in my soul for ever!---
V.
Yet I will but say what mere friends say,
Or only a thought stronger;
I will hold your hand but as long as all may,
Or so very little longer!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA DADA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 145 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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