Analysis of Quitting Again
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
The hero of
Affairs of love
By far too numerous to be mentioned,
And scarred as I'm,
It seemeth time
That I were mustered out and pensioned.
So on this wall
My lute and all
I hang, and dedicate to Venus;
And I implore
But one thing more
Ere all is at an end between us.
O goddess fair
Who reignest where
The weather's seldom bleak and snowy,
This boon I urge:
In anger scourge
My old cantankerous sweetheart, Chloe!
Scheme | AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 0111 1111001110 0111 111 11010101 1111 1101 11010110 0101 1111 111111011 1101 111 010101010 1111 0101 110100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 406 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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