Analysis of To Ligurinus
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
O Cruel fair,
Whose flowing hair
The envy and the pride of all is,
As onward roll
The years, that poll
Will get as bald as a billiard ball is;
Then shall your skin, now pink and dimply,
Be tanned to parchment, sear and pimply!
When you behold
Yourself grown old,
These words shall speak your spirits moody:
'Unhappy one!
What heaps of fun
I've missed by being goody-goody!
Oh, that I might have felt the hunger
Of loveless age when I was younger!'
| Scheme | AABCCBCC DDEFFEGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1101 010001111 1101 0111 1111101011 11111101 11110101 1101 0111 111111010 0101 1111 111101010 111111010 110111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 440 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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