Analysis of Philander's Song
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)
(from "The Sprightly Pilgrim")
I sat and read Anacreon.
Moved by the gay, delicious measure
I mused that lips were made for love,
And love to charm a poet's leisure.
And as I mused a maid came by
With something in her look that caught me.
Forgotten was Anacreon's line,
But not the lesson he had taught me.
| Scheme | ABCDCEFBF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 11011 110101010 11110111 011101010 01110111 110001111 010111 110101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 338 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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