Analysis of A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline Sung by Guiderus and Ar

William Taylor Collins 1721 (Sussex) – 1759 (Sussex)



To fair Fidele's grassy tomb
     Soft maids and village hinds shall bring
   Each op'ning sweet, of earliest bloom,
     And rifle all the breathing spring.

No wailing ghost shall dare appear,
     To vex with shrieks this quiet grove:
   But shepherd lads assemble here,
     And melting virgins own their love.

No wither'd witch shall here be seen,
    No goblins lead their nightly crew:
  The female fays shall haunt the green,
    And dress thy grave with pearly dew!

The redbreast oft at ev'ning hours
    Shall kindly lend his little aid:
  With hoary moss, and gather'd flow'rs,
    To deck the ground where thou art laid.

When howling winds, and beating rain,
    In tempests shake the sylvan cell,
  Or midst the chase on ev'ry plain,
    The tender thought on thee shall dwell.

Each lonely scene shall thee restore,
    For thee the tear be duly shed:
  Belov'd, till life could charm no more;
    And mourn'd, till Pity's self be dead.


Scheme ABAB XXXX CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 111101 11010111 111111001 01010101 11011101 11111101 11010101 01010111 11011111 11011101 0111101 01111101 01111110 11011101 11010101 11011111 11010101 0110101 1101111 01011111 11011101 11011101 01111111 0111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 950
Words 156
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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William Taylor Collins

William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. more…

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