Analysis of Drink Out Thy Glass
Carl Michael Bellman 1740 (Stockholm) – 1795 (Stockholm)
Drink out thy glass! See, on thy threshold, nightly,
Staying his sword, stands Death, awaiting thee.
Be not alarmed; the grave-door, opened slightly,
Closes again; a full year it may be
Ere thou art dragged, poor sufferer, to the grave.
Pick the octave!
Tune up the strings! Sing of life with glee!
Golden's the hue thy dull, wan cheeks are showing;
Shrunken's thy chest, and flat each shoulder-blade.
Give me thy hand! Each dark vein, larger growing,
Is, to my touch, as if in water laid.
Damp are these hands; stiff are these veins becoming.
Pick now, and strumming,
Empty thy bottle! Sing! drink unafraid.
Skal, then, my boy! Old Bacchus sends last greeting;
Freya's farewell receive thou, o'er thy bowl.
Fast in her praise thy thin blood flows, repeating
Its old-time force, as it was wont to roll.
Sing, read, forget; nay, think and weep while thinking.
Art thou for drinking
Another bottle? Thou art dead? No Skal!
| Scheme | AAAAXXA BCBCBBC BDBDBBA |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111110 1011110101 11010111010 1001011111 11111100101 1010 110111111 10011111110 111011101 11111111010 1111110101 11111111010 11010 101101101 11111101110 110111011 10011111010 1111111111 11011101110 11110 0101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 917 |
| Words | 161 |
| Sentences | 26 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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