Analysis of To Albius Tibullus
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Not to lament that rival flame
Wherewith the heartless Glycera scorns you,
Nor waste your time in maudlin rhyme,
How many a modern instance warns you!
Fair-browed Lycoris pines away
Because her Cyrus loves another;
The ruthless churl informs the girl
He loves her only as a brother!
For he, in turn, courts Pholoe,--
A maid unscotched of love's fierce virus;
Why, goats will mate with wolves they hate
Ere Pholoe will mate with Cyrus!
Ah, weak and hapless human hearts,
By cruel Mother Venus fated
To spend this life in hopeless strife,
Because incongruously mated!
Such torture, Albius, is my lot;
For, though a better mistress wooed me,
My Myrtale has captured me,
And with her cruelties subdued me!
Scheme | XAXA XBCB CDXD XEXE XFFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11011101 1010111 11110101 1100101011 111101 010101010 01010101 110101010 110111 01111110 11111111 1111110 11010101 110101010 11110101 010100010 1101111 110101011 111101 01010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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