The poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas. The poem contains 1,855 lines, divided into 265 stanzas of seven lines each. The poem consists of 199 stanzas or 1,194 lines. The first four stanzas of the 1842 poem describe a pastoral setting. The poem has 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. The poem is made up of 18 stanzas of six lines each. The new lyrics had three refrains following three different stanzas. The woman recites a heathen prayer in two stanzas. There are 24 stanzas and 433 lines in the poem. There are six stanzas, each followed by the chorus. Almost every word is transcribed from two of the canto's stanzas, 124 and 126. It consists of four stanzas of 5 lines each. The composition has 352 letters, 108 words in 32 lines in 8 stanzas. The song consists of two consecutive stanzas. Tony Bennett sang it omitting some of the stanzas from the original full version.