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;…

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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