Analysis of Lines Suggested By The Fourteenth Of February - I
Charles Stuart Calverley 1831 (Martley) – 1884
Ere the morn the East has crimsoned,
When the stars are twinkling there,
(As they did in Watts's Hymns, and
Made him wonder what they were
When the forest-nymphs are beading
Fern and flower with silvery dew -
My infallible proceeding
Is to wake, and think of you.
When the hunter's ringing bugle
Sounds farewell to field and copse,
And I sit before my frugal
Meal of gravy-soup and chops:
When (as Gray remarks) 'the moping
Owl doth to the moon complain,'
And the hour suggests eloping -
Fly my thoughts to you again.
May my dreams be granted never?
Must I aye endure affliction
Rarely realised, if ever,
In our wildest works of fiction?
Madly Romeo loved his Juliet;
Copperfield began to pine
When he hadn't been to school yet -
But their loves were cold to mine.
Give me hope, the least, the dimmest,
Ere I drain the poisoned cup:
Tell me I may tell the chymist
Not to make that arsenic up!
Else, this heart shall soon cease throbbing;
And when, musing o'er my bones,
Travellers ask, 'Who killed Cock Robin?'
They'll be told, 'Miss Sarah J-s.'
Scheme | AXABCACX DEDECXCX BFBFAGAG AHAHCEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 10111001 1110110 1110110 1010111 101011001 10100010 1110111 10101010 111101 01101110 1110101 11101010 1110101 0010011 1111101 11111010 11101010 101110 010101110 10101110 100111 11101111 1110111 1110101 1110101 1111101 11111001 11111110 01101011 100111110 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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