Analysis of Horace: Book II. Ode 9
Samuel Johnson 1709 (Lichfield) – 1784 (London)
Clouds do not always veil the skies,
Nor showers immerse the verdant plain;
Nor do the billows always rise,
Or storms afflict the ruffled main.
Nor, Valgius, on the Armenian shores
Do the chain'd waters always freeze;
Not always furious Boreas roars,
Or bends with violent force the trees.
But you are ever drown'd in tears,
For Mystes dead you ever mourn;
No setting Sol can ease your cares,
But find you sad at his return.
The wise experienced Grecian sage
Mourn'd not Antilochus so long;
Nor did King Priam's hoary age
So much lament his slaughter'd son.
Leave off, at length, these woman's sighs,
Augustus' number'd trophies sing,
To whom all nations tribute bring.
Niphates rolls an humbler wave,
At length th' undaunted Scythian yields,
Content to live the Roman slave,
And scarce forsakes his native fields.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX FXFX AGG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 110010101 1101011 11010101 111001001 1011011 1110011 111100101 11110101 1111101 11011111 11111101 010100101 11111 1111101 11011101 11111101 01010101 11110101 1111001 11110101001 10110101 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 800 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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