Analysis of Wine, Women, And Song
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Ovarus mine,
Plant thou the vine
Within this kindly soil of Tibur;
Nor temporal woes,
Nor spiritual, knows
The man who's a discreet imbiber.
For who doth croak
Of being broke,
Or who of warfare, after drinking?
With bowl atween us,
Of smiling Venus
And Bacchus shall we sing, I'm thinking.
Of symptoms fell
Which brawls impel,
Historic data give us warning;
The wretch who fights
When full, of nights,
Is bound to have a head next morning.
I do not scorn
A friendly horn,
But noisy toots, I can't abide 'em!
Your howling bat
Is stale and flat
To one who knows, because he's tried 'em!
The secrets of
The life I love
(Companionship with girls and toddy)
I would not drag
With drunken brag
Into the ken of everybody;
But in the shade
Let some coy maid
With smilax wreathe my flagon's nozzle,
Then all day long,
With mirth and song,
Shall I enjoy a quiet sozzle!
Scheme | AABCCBDDEFFE GGEHHEIIJKKJ LLKMMXNNXOOG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 1101 01110111 11001 110001 0110011 1111 1101 11111010 1111 11010 010111110 1101 1101 010101110 0111 1111 111101110 1111 0101 110111011 1101 1101 111101111 0101 0111 0101101 1111 1101 01011100 1001 1111 1111110 1111 1101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 832 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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