Analysis of To Pompeius Varus
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Pompey, what fortune gives you back
To the friends and the gods who love you?
Once more you stand in your native land,
With your native sky above you.
Ah, side by side, in years agone,
We've faced tempestuous weather,
And often quaffed
The genial draught
From the same canteen together.
When honor at Philippi fell
A prey to brutal passion,
I regret to say that my feet ran away
In swift Iambic fashion.
You were no poet; soldier born,
You stayed, nor did you wince then.
Mercury came
To my help, which same
Has frequently saved me since then.
But now you're back, let's celebrate
In the good old way and classic;
Come, let us lard our skins with nard,
And bedew our souls with Massic!
With fillets of green parsley leaves
Our foreheads shall be done up;
And with song shall we
Protract our spree
Until the morrow's sun-up.
Scheme | ABCBDECXE XDXDDDFFD XXXAXGHHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 101001111 111101101 11101011 1111011 1110010 0101 0101 10101010 11010101 0111010 10111111101 01110 10110101 1111111 1001 11111 11001111 1111110 00111010 111110111 0110111 11011101 1011111 01111 01101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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