Analysis of To Amanda - Come, Dear Amanda, Quit The Town

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



Come, dear Amanda, quit the town,
And to the rural hamlets fly;
Behold! the wintry storms are gone;
A gentle radiance glads the sky.
The birds awake, the flowers appear,
Earth spreads a verdant couch for thee;
'Tis joy and music all we hear,
'Tis love and beauty all we see.
Come, let us mark the gradual spring,
How peeps the bud, the blossom blows;
Till Philomel begins to sing,
And perfect May to swell the rose.
E'en so thy rising charms improve,
As life's warm season grows more bright;
And opening to the sighs of love,
Thy beauties glow with full delight.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 01010101 01010111 010100101 010101001 11010111 11010111 11010111 111101001 11010101 110111 00111101 111110101 11110111 010010111 11011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 570
Words 105
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 434
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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