Analysis of Lines Suggested By The Fourteenth Of February - II
Charles Stuart Calverley 1831 (Martley) – 1884
Darkness succeeds to twilight:
Through lattice and through skylight
The stars no doubt, if one looked out,
Might be observed to shine:
And sitting by the embers
I elevate my members
On a stray chair, and then and there
Commence a Valentine.
Yea! by St. Valentinus,
Emma shall not be minus
What all young ladies, whate'er their grade is,
Expect to-day no doubt:
Emma the fair, the stately -
Whom I beheld so lately,
Smiling beneath the snow-white wreath
Which told that she was 'out.'
Wherefore fly to her, swallow,
And mention that I'd 'follow,'
And 'pipe and trill,' et cetera, till
I died, had I but wings:
Say the North's 'true and tender,'
The South an old offender;
And hint in fact, with your well-known tact,
All kinds of pretty things.
Say I grow hourly thinner,
Simply abhor my dinner -
Tho' I do try and absorb some viand
Each day, for form's sake merely:
And ask her, when all's ended,
And I am found extended,
With vest blood-spotted and cut carotid,
To think on Her's sincerely.
Scheme | AABCDDXC DXXBEEXB FFXGHHXG HHAEIIXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111 110011 01111111 110111 0101010 110110 10110101 01010 1111 1011110 1111010111 011111 1001010 111110 10010111 111111 111010 0101110 010111001 111111 1011010 0111010 010111111 111101 1111010 1001110 111100111 1111110 0101110 0111010 1111001010 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 968 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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