Analysis of A Song To A Fair Young Lady Going Out Of Town In The Spring
John Dryden 1631 (Aldwincle) – 1631 (London)
1.
Ask not the cause why sullen spring
So long delays her flowers to bear;
Why warbling birds forget to sing,
And winter storms invert the year;
Chloris is gone, and Fate provides
To make it spring where she resides.
2.
Chloris is gone, the cruel fair;
She cast not back a pitying eye;
But left her lover in despair,
To sigh, to languish, and to die:
Ah, how can those fair eyes endure
To give the wounds they will not cure!
3.
Great god of love, why hast thou made
A face that can all hearts command,
That all religions can invade,
And change the laws of every land?
Where thou hadst plac'd such pow'r before,
Thou shouldst have made her mercy more.
4.
When Chloris to the temple comes,
Adoring crowds before her fall;
She can restore the dead from tombs,
And ev'ry life but mine recall.
I only am by love designed
To be the victim for mankind.
Scheme | ABCBXDD ACECEFF AGHGHII AXJXJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11011101 110101011 110010111 01010101 10110101 11111101 1 10110101 111101001 11010001 11110011 11111101 11011111 1 11111111 01111101 11010101 010111001 111111101 11110101 1 11010101 01010101 11010111 011111 11011101 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 827 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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