Analysis of Old Spanish Song
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
I'm thinking of the wooing
That won my maiden heart
When he--he came pursuing
A love unused to art.
Into the drowsy river
The moon transported flung
Her soul that seemed to quiver
With the songs my lover sung.
And the stars in rapture twinkled
On the slumbrous world below--
You see that, old and wrinkled,
I'm not forgetful--no!
He still should be repeating
The vows he uttered then--
Alas! the years, though fleeting,
Are truer yet than men!
The summer moonlight glistens
In the favorite trysting spot
Where the river ever listens
For a song it heareth not.
And I, whose head is sprinkled
With time's benumbing snow,
I languish, old and wrinkled,
But not forgetful--no!
What though he elsewhere turneth
To beauty strangely bold?
Still in my bosom burneth
The tender fire of old;
And the words of love he told me
And the songs he sung me then
Come crowding to uphold me,
And I live my youth again!
For when love's feet have tinkled
On the pathway women go,
Though one be old and wrinkled,
She's not forgetful--no!
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEF AGAGHIHIEFEF JKJKLGLGEFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 111101 1111010 010111 0101010 010101 0111110 1011101 00101010 101101 1111010 110101 1111010 011101 0101110 110111 01011 0010011 10101010 101111 0111110 1111 1101010 110101 11111 110101 101101 0101011 00111111 0011111 1101011 0111101 1111110 101101 1111010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 987 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 265 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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