Analysis of Beauty's Song
Charles Lamb 1775 (Inner Temple, London) – 1834 (Edmonton, London)
What's Life still changing ev'ry hour?
Tis all the seasons in a Day!
The Smile, the Tear, the Sun, the Show'r'
Tis now December, now tis May
At morn we hail some envied Queen;
At eve she sinks some Cottage guest;
Yet if contentment gilds the scene
Contentment makes the Cottage blest.
Who more than I, this truth can feel?
I feel it yet am charm'd to find
While thus I turn the spinning-wheel
The station humbles not the mind.
Ah no! in days of youth and health
Nature will smile tho' fortune frown
Be this my song Content is wealth'
And duty ev'ry toil shall crown.
| Scheme | XAXABCBC DEDEFGFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110110 11010001 010101011 11010111 11111101 11111101 11010101 01010101 11111111 11111111 11110101 01010101 11011101 10111101 11111011 0101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 559 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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