Analysis of Frank Leigh's Song: A.D. 1586
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
Ah tyrant Love, Megaera's serpents bearing,
Why thus requite my sighs with venom'd smart?
Ah ruthless dove, the vulture's talons wearing,
Why flesh them, traitress, in this faithful heart?
Is this my meed? Must dragons' teeth alone
In Venus' lawns by lovers' hands be sown?
Nay, gentlest Cupid; 'twas my pride undid me;
Nay, guiltless dove; by mine own wound I fell.
To worship, not to wed, Celestials bid me:
I dreamt to mate in heaven, and wake in hell;
For ever doom'd, Ixion-like, to reel
On mine own passions' ever-burning wheel.
Devonshire, 1854.
From Westward Ho!
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111010 11111111 1101011010 111101101 1111110101 0101110111 110010111011 1101111111 110111111 11110100101 1101010111 1111010101 01 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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