Analysis of A Blue Love Song. To Miss-----.
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
Air-"Come live with me and be my love."
Come wed with me and we will write,
My Blue of Blues, from morn till night.
Chased from our classic souls shall be
All thoughts of vulgar progeny;
And thou shalt walk through smiling rows
Of chubby duodecimos,
While I, to match thy products nearly,
Shall lie-in of a quarto yearly.
'Tis true, even books entail some trouble;
But live productions give one double.
Correcting children is such bother,--
While printers' devils correct the other.
Just think, my own Malthusian dear,
How much more decent 'tis to hear
From male or female--as it may be--
"How is your book?" than "How's your baby?"
And whereas physic and wet nurses
Do much exhaust paternal purses,
Our books if rickety may go
And be well dry-nurst in the Row;
And when God wills to take them hence,
Are buried at the Row's expense.
Besides, (as 'tis well proved by thee,
In thy own Works, vol. 93.)
The march, just now, of population
So much outscrips all moderation,
That even prolific herring-shoals
Keep pace not with our erring souls.
Oh far more proper and well-bred
To stick to writing books instead;
And show the world how two Blue lovers
Can coalesce, like two book-covers,
(Sheep-skin, or calf, or such wise leather,)
Lettered at back and stitched together
Fondly as first the binder fixt 'em,
With naught but--literature betwixt 'em.
Scheme | X AABBCCBBDD EEXXBBXXFFGG BDHHIIJJKKEELL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110111 11110111 11111111 111010111 11110100 01111101 1101 111111010 110101010 1110101110 110101110 010101110 1101001010 111111 11110111 11111111 111111110 00110110 110101010 101110011 01111001 01111111 11010101 01111111 01111 01111010 1111010 110010101 111110101 11110011 11110101 010111110 10111110 111111110 101101010 101101011 1111000011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,321 |
Words | 244 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10, 12, 14 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 260 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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