Love Poem

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Love Poem (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)

The Poem

“Love Poem” is a twenty-four-line poem in six stanzas of four lines each; the second and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme. Although the oddly generic title is an accurate description of the poem, its very generality also provides the reader with a subtle clue that this may not be a traditional example of love poetry.

Indeed, in the poem’s first three words, the speaker directly addresses his beloved as “My clumsiest dear.” The woman he loves, as the reader quickly learns, breaks nearly everything that encounters her “quick touch.” Her hands wreak...

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See Also:

• John Frederick Nims (Poetry)
• John Frederick Nims (Cyclopedia of World Authors)