Philander's Song
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)
(from "The Sprightly Pilgrim")
I sat and read Anacreon.
Moved by the gay, delicious measure
I mused that lips were made for love,
And love to charm a poet's leisure.
And as I mused a maid came by
With something in her look that caught me.
Forgotten was Anacreon's line,
But not the lesson he had taught me.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDCEFBF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 338 |
Words | 60 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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