Analysis of Songs Set To Music: 21. Set By Mr. De Fesch
Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721
Touch the lyre, touch every string;
Touch it, Orpheus; I will sing
A song which shall immortal be,
Since she I sing's a deity;
A Leonora, whose bless'd birth
Has no relation to this earth.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 10111001 11100111 01110101 11110100 0010111 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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