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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Eugene Field

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. more…

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