Analysis of Absent of Thee I Languish Still

Lord John Wilmot 1647 (Ditchley, Oxfordshire) – 1680 (Woodstock, Oxfordshire)



Absent from thee I languish still;
Then ask me not, when I return?
The straying fool 'twill plainly kill
To wish all day, all night to mourn.

Dear! from thine arms then let me fly,
That my fantastic mind may prove
The torments it deserves to try
That tears my fixed heart from my love.

When, wearied with a world of woe,
To thy safe bosom I retire
where love and peace and truth does flow,
May I contented there expire,

Lest, once more wandering from that heaven,
I fall on some base heart unblest,
Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven,
And lose my everlasting rest.


Scheme AXAX BXBX CDCD EFEF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 10111101 11111101 01011101 11111111 11111111 11010111 0110111 11111111 11010111 11110101 11010111 11010101 1111001110 1111111 1111010 0110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 559
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Lord John Wilmot

John Wilmot was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court. more…

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