Analysis of Could Man Be Drunk Forever
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at morning
And lief lie down of nights.
But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon their hearts.
| Scheme | ABXB ACXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111110 110111 1111110 011111 1111110 011101 0111110 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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