Analysis of A Billet Doux
George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883
My brightest hopes are mix'd with tears,
Like hues of light and gloom;
As when mid sun-shine rain appears,
Love rises with a thousand fears,
To pine and still to bloom.
When I have told my last fond tale
In lines of song to thee,
And for departure spread my sail,
Say, lovely princess, wilt thou fail
To drop a tear for me?
O, princess, should my votive strain
Salute thy ear no more,
Like one deserted on the main,
I still shall gaze, alas! but vain,
On wedlock's flow'ry shore.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 111101 11111101 11010101 110111 11111111 011111 01010111 11010111 110111 1101111 011111 11010101 11110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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