Analysis of Let Us Have Peace
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
In maudlin spite let Thracians fight
Above their bowls of liquor;
But such as we, when on a spree,
Should never brawl and bicker!
These angry words and clashing swords
Are quite _de trop_, I'm thinking;
Brace up, my boys, and hush your noise,
And drown your wrath in drinking.
Aha, 't is fine,--this mellow wine
With which our host would dope us!
Now let us hear what pretty dear
Entangles him of Opus.
I see you blush,--nay, comrades, hush!
Come, friend, though they despise you,
Tell me the name of that fair dame,--
Perchance I may advise you.
O wretched youth! and is it truth
You love that fickle lady?
I, doting dunce, courted her once;
Since when, she's reckoned shady!
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDXD XEXE XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101111 0111110 11111101 1101010 11010101 1111110 11110111 0111010 11111101 11101111 11111101 11110 1111111 1111011 11011111 0111011 11010111 1111010 11011001 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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