Analysis of To Fortune
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe to love,
And when we meet a mutual heart
Come in between, and bid us part;
Bid us on from day to day,
And wish, and wish the soul away;
Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the love of life is gone?
But busy, busy still art thou,
To bind the loveless, joyless vow.
The heart from pleasure to delude,
And join the gentle to the rude.
For pomp, and noise, and senseless show
To make us Nature's joys forego,
Beneath a gay dominion groan,
And put the golden fetter on!
For once, O Fortune, hear my prayer,
And I absolve thy future care;
All other blessings I resign,
Make but the dear Amanda mine.
Scheme | XXAA BBCX DDEE FFCX GGHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 11010111 1010111 011101001 10010111 1111111 01010101 11010111 01011111 11010111 1101011 01110101 01010101 11010101 11110101 01010101 01010101 11110111 01011101 11010101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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