Analysis of To ------
Thomas Parnell 1679 (Dublin) – 1718
Thanks to the friend whose happy lines coud cheer
In Derry's oaten soil frozen air
When to the Citty late I bid farewell
Beneath my firm resolves my scribling fell
The Ghost of my departed Muse you raise
tune her tongue to long forgotten layes
Thus a poor girl by passion overrun
Tires with the folly forsakes the town
But if her shades present a powrfull swain
She feels ye woman stirr loves again
Your thoughts are Just your words fall in wth ease
Who woud not be abused in lines like these
Mindless of all the ill they say of me
I read them admire their poetry
So when a Charming beauty strikes ye heart
We slight the wound to gaze upon ye dart
But oh My friend of writing much beware
If once you're charmd youre fixd for ever there
Fame all abroad loose desires with in
Intice a giddy creature to the pen
A Cælia soon he getts to whom to write
the brisk bottle must compleat ye witt
Then every minute of succeeding time
Invents a frolick or creates a whim
Which his leud absent friend must hear in rime
You'll think ( others have been thus undone)
Your reason can the growing passion shun
But did you know its strength youd doubt your own
Your best endeavours on ye law bestow
Rough as it is 'tis proffitable too
Cowel Blunt have words Cook ye way
to keep the wrangling sons of earth in play
then if your books you use your Clients pay
Stay Muse in paths you never trod you rove
My lean advice does my presumption prove
But Can it shew my fault & not my love
Kindly accept what I in kindness send
think me as I think my self your friend.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 0111101 11011111 011101111 0111010111 101110101 101111010 101010101 110110011 111101101 1111111011 1111010111 1011011111 111011100 1101010111 1101110111 1111110101 1111111101 1101101010 101010101 01101111111 01101111 11001010101 010110101 1111011101 111011101 1101010101 1111111111 11111101 1111111 1111111 11010011101 1111111101 1101110111 1101110101 111111111 1001110101 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,521 |
Words | 302 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 18, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 308 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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