Analysis of Wisdom
Ernest Christopher Dowson 1867 – 1900
Love wine and beauty and the spring,
While wine is red and spring is here,
And through the almond blossoms ring
The dove-like voices of thy Dear.
Love wine and spring and beauty while
The wine hath flavour and spring masks
Her treachery in so soft a smile
That none may think of toil and tasks.
But when spring goes on hurrying feet,
Look not thy sorrow in the eyes,
And bless thy freedom from thy sweet:
This is the wisdom of the wise.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11010001 11110111 01010101 01110111 11010101 0111011 010001101 11111101 111111001 11110001 01110111 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 433 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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