Analysis of A drinking song
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Come, brothers, share the fellowship
We celebrate to-night;
There's grace of song on every lip
And every heart is light!
But first, before our mentor chimes
The hour of jubilee,
Let's drink a health to good old times,
And good times yet to be!
Clink, clink, clink!
Merrily let us drink!
There's store of wealth
And more of health
In every glass, we think.
Clink, clink, clink!
To fellowship we drink!
And from the bowl
No genial soul
In such an hour can shrink.
And you, oh, friends from west and east
And other foreign parts,
Come share the rapture of our feast,
The love of loyal hearts;
And in the wassail that suspends
All matters burthensome,
We 'll drink a health to good old friends
And good friends yet to come.
Clink, clink, clink!
To fellowship we drink!
And from the bowl
No genial soul
In such an hour will shrink.
Clink, clink, clink!
Merrily let us drink!
There's fellowship
In every sip
Of friendship's brew, we think.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 11011 111111001 0100111 11011011 010110 11011111 011111 111 100111 1111 0111 0100111 111 11011 0101 1101 0111011 01111101 010101 110101101 011101 0001101 1101 111011111 011111 111 11011 0101 1101 0111011 111 100111 110 01001 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,070 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 18 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 361 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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