Analysis of When a Merry Maiden Marries
When a merry maiden marries,
Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries;
Every sound becomes a song,
All is right and nothing's wrong!
From to-day and ever after
Let your tears be tears of laughter -
Every sigh that finds a vent
Be a sigh of sweet content!
When you marry merry maiden,
Then the air with love is laden;
Every flower is a rose,
Every goose becomes a swan,
Every kind of trouble goes
Where the last year's snows have gone;
Sunlight takes the place of shade
When you marry merry maid!
When a merry maiden marries
Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries;
Every sound becomes a song,
All is right, and nothing's wrong.
Gnawing Care and aching Sorrow,
Get ye gone until to-morrow;
Jealousies in grim array,
Ye are things of yesterday!
When you marry merry maiden,
Then the air with joy is laden;
All the corners of the earth
Ring with music sweetly played,
Worry is melodious mirth,
Grief is joy in masquerade;
Sullen night is laughing day -
All the year is merry May!
Scheme | AABBccddEefxfxgg AABBhhiiEejgjgii |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 1010101 10010101 1110101 11101010 11111110 10011101 1011110 11101010 10111110 10010101 10010101 10011101 1011111 110111 1110101 10101010 1010101 10010101 1110101 10101010 11101110 1000101 111110 11101010 10111110 1010101 1110101 10101001 111001 1011101 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 938 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 16 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 378 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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