Analysis of Sweet Valley, Say
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
Sweet valley, say, where, pensive lying,
For me, our children, England, sighing,
The best of mortals leans his head.
Ye fountains, dimpled by my sorrow,
Ye brooks that my complainings borrow,
O lead me to his lonely bed;
Or if my lover,
Deep woods, you cover,
Ah whisper where your shadows o'er him spread.
'Tis not the loss of pomp and pleasure,
Of empire or of tinsel treasure,
That drops this tear, that swells this groan:
No; from a nobler cause proceeding,
A heart with love and fondness bleeding,
I breathe my sadly pleasing moan,
With other anguish
I scorn to languish
For love will feel no sorrows but his own.
Scheme | AABCCBDDB DDEAAEFFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111010 1110101010 01110111 110101110 111111 11111101 11110 11110 1101111011 110111010 1100111010 11111111 110101010 011101010 11110101 11010 11110 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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