Analysis of To Love (Amanda)
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
Sweet tyrant Love,- but hear me now!
And cure while young this pleasing smart;
Or rather aid my trembling vow,
And teach me to reveal my heart.
Tell her, whose goodness is my bane,
Whose looks have smiled my peace away,
Oh! whisper how she gives me pain,
Whilst undesigning, frank, and gay.
'Tis not for common charms I sigh,
For what the vulgar beauty call;
'Tis not a cheek, a lip, an eye,
But 'tis the soul that lights them all!
For that I drop the tender tear,
For that I make this artless moan;
Oh! sigh it, Love! into her ear,
And make the bashful lover known.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011111 01111101 110111001 01110111 10110111 11111101 11011111 11101 11110111 11010101 11010111 11011111 11110101 1111111 11110101 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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