Analysis of To Quintus Dellius
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Be tranquil, Dellius, I pray;
For though you pine your life away
With dull complaining breath,
Or speed with song and wine each day,
Still, still your doom is death.
Where the white poplar and the pine
In glorious arching shade combine,
And the brook singing goes,
Bid them bring store of nard and wine
And garlands of the rose.
Let's live while chance and youth obtain;
Soon shall you quit this fair domain
Kissed by the Tiber's gold,
And all your earthly pride and gain
Some heedless heir shall hold.
One ghostly boat shall some time bear
From scenes of mirthfulness or care
Each fated human soul,--
Shall waft and leave its burden where
The waves of Lethe roll.
_So come, I prithee, Dellius mine;
Let's sing our songs and drink our wine
In that sequestered nook
Where the white poplar and the pine
Stand listening to the brook_.
Scheme | aabab Ccdcd eefef gghgh cciCi |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 11111101 110101 11110111 111111 10110001 010010110 001101 11111101 01101 11110101 11111101 11011 01110101 11111 11011111 111111 110101 11011101 01111 111111 1110101101 010101 10110001 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 815 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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