Analysis of Vows
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
Nay, ask me not. I would not dare pretend
To constant passion and a life-long trust.
They will desert thee, if indeed they must.
How can we guess what Destiny will send -
Smiles of fair fortune, or black storms to rend
What even now is shaken by a gust?
The fire will burn, or it will die in dust.
We cannot tell until the final end.
And never vow was forged that could confine
Aught but the body of the thing whereon
Its pledge was stamped. The inner soul divine,
That thinks of going, is already gone.
When faith and love need bolts upon the door,
Faith is not faith, and love abides no more.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 1101000111 1110110111 1111110011 1111011111 1101110101 01011111101 1101010101 0101111101 110101011 1111010101 1111010101 1101110101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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