Analysis of The Vintage to the Dungeon
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
Sing out, pent soules, sing cheerefully!
Care shackles you in liberty:
Mirth frees you in captivity.
Would you double fetters adde?
Else why so sadde?
Besides your pinion'd armes youl finde
Griefe too can manakell the minde.
Live then, pris'ners, uncontrol'd;
Drink oth' strong, the rich, the old,
Till wine too hath your wits in hold;
Then if still your jollitie
And throats are free--
Tryumph in your bonds and paines,
And daunce to the music of your chaines.
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| Metre | 111111 11010100 11100100 1110101 1111 0111111 111101 1111 1110101 11111101 11111 0111 101101 011010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 472 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 5, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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