Analysis of Farewell to Ravelrig

James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)



Sweet Ravelrig, I ne'er could part
From thee, but wi' a dowie heart.
When I think on the happy days
I spent in youth about your braes,
When innocence my steps did guide,
Where murmuring streams did sweetly glide
Beside the braes well stored wi' trees,
And sweetest flow'rs that fend the bees:

And there the tuneful tribe doth sing,
While lightly flitting on the wing;
And conscious peace was ever found
Within your mansion to abound.
Sweet be thy former owner's rest,
And peace to him that's now possess't
Of all thy beauties great and small,
Lang may he live to bruik them all!


Scheme AABBCCDD EEFFXXGG
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 11110101 11110101 11010111 11001111 110011101 01011111 01011101 01010111 11010101 01011101 01110101 11110101 011111011 11110101 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 590
Words 109
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 227
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 07, 2023

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James Thomson

James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. more…

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