Analysis of The Fair Stranger. A Song
John Dryden 1631 (Aldwincle) – 1631 (London)
Happy and free, securely blest,
No beauty could disturb my rest;
My amorous heart was in despair
To find a new victorious fair:
Till you, descending on our plains,
With foreign force renew my chains;
Where now you rule without control,
The mighty sovereign of my soul.
Your smiles have more of conquering charms,
Than all your native country's arms;
Their troops we can expel with ease,
Who vanquish only when we please.
But in your eyes, O! there's the spell!
Who can see them, and not rebel?
You make us captives by your stay;
Yet kill us if you go away.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 11010111 110011001 110101001 110101101 11010111 11110101 01010111 111111001 11110101 11110111 11010111 10111101 11110110 11110111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 433 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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