Analysis of A Courtier to His Beloved
O’ shall we pluck the peafowl’s gaudy plumes,
or wear the Eastern country’s rare perfumes?
Shall we go ride the camel caravan,
or boat the river Nile to the Sudan?
Shall we make company with princely sorts,
or dance in palisades of kingdom courts?
Shall we take friends from among Capuchins,
or gather water for the elephants?
Shall we adventure to the Orient,
or journey further through the Occident?
Shall our hearts make their flight like hummingbirds,
and shall we sing a song with strings-of-words?
Shall we dare loll with lions in the grass,
or mate a matured mare with a wild ass?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101101 110101101 111101010 1101011001 1111001101 110011101 11111011 1101010100 110101010 110101010 1101111110 0111011111 1111110001 1100111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
This poem is a collection of things that I find exciting, though, I'd hardly say my life is filled with this kind of adventure. It seems that poetry is the Great Escapade.
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