Analysis of A Letter of Advice



You tell me you're promised a lover,
My own Araminta, next week;
Why cannot my fancy discover
The hue of his coat, and his cheek?
Alas! if he look like another,
A vicar, a banker, a beau,
Be deaf to your father and mother,
My own Araminta, say 'No!'

Miss Lane, at her Temple of Fashion,
Taught us both how to sing and to speak,
And we loved one another with passion,
Before we had been there a week:
You gave me a ring for a token;
I wear it wherever I go;
I gave you a chain, - it is broken?
My own Araminta, say 'No!'

O think of our favorite cottage,
And think of our dear Lalla Rookh!
How we shared with the milkmaids their pottage,
And drank of the stream from the brook;
How fondly our loving lips faltered,
'What further can grandeur bestow?'
My heart is the same; - is yours altered?
My own Araminta, say 'No!'

Remember the thrilling romances
We read on the bank in the glen;
Remember the suitors our fancies
Would picture for both of us then;
They wore the red cross on their shoulder,
They had vanquished and pardoned their foe -
Sweet friend, are you wiser or colder?
My own Araminta, say 'No!'


Scheme ababacaC dbdbdcdC ebexfcfC xgxgacaC
Poetic Form
Metre 111110010 1101011 110110010 01111011 011111010 01001001 111110010 1101011 111010110 111111011 0111010110 01111101 111011010 11101011 111011110 1101011 1111010010 011101101 11110111 01101101 1101010110 11010101 111011110 1101011 010010010 11101001 0100101010 11011111 110111110 111001011 111110110 1101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,112
Words 220
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 209
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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