Analysis of Songs Set To Music: 13. Set By Mr. De Fesch
Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721
Love! inform thy faithful creature
How to keep his fair one's heart;
Must it be by truth of nature,
Or by poor dissembling art?
Tell the secret, show the wonder,
How we both may gain our ends;
I am lost if we're asunder,
Ever tortured if we're friends.
| Scheme | ABABACAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111010 1111111 11111110 1110101 10101010 11111101 11111010 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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