Analysis of Songs Set To Music: 25.

Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721



Since, Moggy, I mun bid adieu,
How can I help despairing?
Let cruel Fate us still pursue,
There's nought more worth my caring.

'Twas she alone could calm my soul
When racking thoughts did grieve me;
Her eyes my trouble could control,
And into joys deceive me.

Farewell ye brooks! no more along
Your banks mun I be walking;
No more you'll hear my pipe or song,
Or pretty Moggy's talking.

But I by death an end will give
To grief since we mun sever;
For who can after parting live,
Ought to be wretched ever.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EBEB XFXF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1111101 1111010 11011101 1111110 11011111 1101111 01110101 0011011 1111101 1111110 11111111 110110 11111111 1111110 11110101 1111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 501
Words 98
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Matthew Prior

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