Analysis of Horace to Pyrrha
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
What perfumed, posie-dizened sirrah,
With smiles for diet,
Clasps you, O fair but faithless Pyrrha,
On the quiet?
For whom do you bind up your tresses,
As spun-gold yellow,--
Meshes that go, with your caresses,
To snare a fellow?
How will he rail at fate capricious,
And curse you duly!
Yet now he deems your wiles delicious,
You perfect, truly!
Pyrrha, your love's a treacherous ocean;
He'll soon fall in there!
Then shall I gloat on his commotion,
For I have been there!
Scheme | ABXBCDCD EFEFGAGA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 11110 1111111 1010 111111110 11110 101111010 11010 111111010 01110 111111010 10110 111010010 11101 111111010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 473 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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