Analysis of Let Us Be Drunk
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Let us be drunk, and for a while forget,
Forget, and, ceasing even from regret,
Live without reason and despite of rhyme,
As in a dream preposterous and sublime,
Where place and hour and means for once are met.
Where is the use of effort? Love and debt
And disappointment have us in a net.
Let us break out, and taste the morning prime . . .
Let us be drunk.
In vain our little hour we strut and fret,
And mouth our wretched parts as for a bet:
We cannot please the tragicaster Time.
To gain the crystal sphere, the silver dime,
Where Sympathy sits dimpling on us yet,
Let us be drunk!
Scheme | aabba aabC aabbaC |
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Poetic Form | Rondeau |
Metre | 1111010101 0101010101 1011000111 10010100001 11010011111 1101110101 001011001 1111010101 1111 011010101101 01101011101 1101011 1101010101 110011111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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