Analysis of Take Them Away! They'll Drive Me Crazy
Henry Clay Work 1832 (Middletown, Connecticut) – 1884 (Hartford, Connecticut)
Riding in the Park, or down town shopping
At the Matinee, or singing in the choir
Everywhere a dazzling blaze of beauty
Blinds my eyes and sets my soul afire
How my heart thumps and how my head whirls!
Don't you look this way, beautiful girls!
Oh, take them away, they'll drive me crazy!
Oh! the saucy, pretty, winnning, witty, mischief-loving girls!
How my heart thumps and how my head whirls!
Don't you look this way, beautiful girls!
Oh, take them away, they'll drive me crazy!
Oh! the saucy, pretty, winnning, witty, mischief-loving girls!
As I sit beside them, charming creatures,
Little do they know how I tempted to
Throw my arms around their necks, and kiss them!
Though, of course, I know it wouldn't do.
Gliding through the gateway, there they go! there they go!
Don't they make you think of broken string of pearls?
Tripping up the stairway, here they come! here they come!
While the zephyrs frolic in their curls.
Every day so near, and yet so distant--
Everywhere so plenty, yet so little mine--
Doubtless they are angels wrongly labelled,
Angels made in other spheres to shine.
| Scheme | xxax BBAB BBAB bcxc xbxb xdxd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
| Metre | 1000111110 10101100010 1001001110 111011101 111101111 111111001 1110111110 10101011010101 111101111 111111001 1110111110 10101011010101 1110111010 1011111101 1110111011 111111101 10101111111 11111110111 10101111111 101010011 10011101110 1011011101 1011101010 101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 1,076 |
| Words | 193 |
| Sentences | 20 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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