Analysis of Long Meter
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
All human joys are swift of wing
For heaven doth so allot it
That when you get an easy thing
You find you haven't got it.
Man never yet has loved a maid,
But they were sure to part, sir;
Nor never lacked a paltry spade
But that he drew a heart, sir!
Go, Chauncey! it is plain as day
You much prefer a dinner
To walking straight in wisdom's way--
Go to, thou babbling sinner.
The froward part that you have played
To me this lesson teaches:
To trust no man whose stock in trade
Is after-dinner speeches.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EDED CFCF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011111 11011011 11111101 1111011 11011101 1101111 11010101 1111011 11011111 1101010 1101011 11110010 0111111 1111010 11111101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 495 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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