Analysis of To Aristius Fuscus
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Fuscus, whoso to good inclines,
And is a faultless liver,
Nor Moorish spear nor bow need fear,
Nor poison-arrowed quiver.
Ay, though through desert wastes he roam,
Or scale the rugged mountains,
Or rest beside the murmuring tide
Of weird Hydaspan fountains!
Lo, on a time, I gayly paced
The Sabine confines shady,
And sung in glee of Lalage,
My own and dearest lady;
And as I sung, a monster wolf
Slunk through the thicket from me;
But for that song, as I strolled along,
He would have overcome me!
Set me amid those poison mists
Which no fair gale dispelleth,
Or in the plains where silence reigns,
And no thing human dwelleth,--
Still shall I love my Lalage,
Still sing her tender graces;
And while I sing, my theme shall bring
Heaven to those desert places!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCDC XCXC XEXE DXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 111101 010110 11011111 110110 11110111 1101010 110101001 11110 1101111 001110 010111 1101010 01110101 1101011 111111101 111101 11011101 11111 10011101 011101 111111 1101010 01111111 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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