Analysis of The Reconciliation
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
When you were mine, in auld lang syne,
And when none else your charms might ogle,
I'll not deny, fair nymph, that I
Was happier than a heathen mogul.
Before _she_ came, that rival flame
(Had ever mater saucier filia?),
In those good times, bepraised in rhymes,
I was more famed than Mother Ilia.
Chloe of Thrace! With what a grace
Does she at song or harp employ her!
I'd gladly die, if only I
Could live forever to enjoy her!
My Sybaris so noble is
That, by the gods, I love him madly!
That I might save him from the grave,
I'd give my life, and give it gladly!
What if _ma belle_ from favor fell,
And I made up my mind to shake her;
Would Lydia then come back again,
And to her quondam love betake her?
My other beau should surely go,
And you alone should find me gracious;
For no one slings such odes and things
As does the lauriger Horatius!
Scheme | ABCB XBXB XDCD XEXE XDAD XFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010111 011111110 11011111 1100101010 01111101 110101001 0111101 11111101 10111101 111111010 11011101 110101010 111101 110111110 11111101 111101110 11111101 011111110 110011101 01011010 11011101 010111110 11111101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 845 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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