This is an analysis of Love's Paradox by Arthur Symons.
Once I smiled when I saw you, when I saw you smile I was glad,
And the joy of my heart was as foam that the sea-wind shakes from the sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 9,
- Metre: 111111111111111 10101111110111001 1010111110111111 1010111111001 111111111111111 101001001001101101 1010111110111111 1011011111001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
my, i, and, heart, smile, you, me, your, voice, of