Analysis of Song.
Joseph Rodman Drake 1795 (New York City) – 1820 (New York City)
'Tis not the beam of her bright blue eye,
Nor the smile of her lip of rosy dye,
Nor the dark brown wreaths of her glossy hair,
Nor her changing cheek, so rich and rare.
Oh! these are the sweets of a fairy dream,
The changing hues of an April sky.
They fade like dew in the morning beam,
Or the passing zephyr's odour'd sigh.
'Tis a dearer spell that bids me kneel,
'Tis the heart to love, and the soul to feel:
'Tis the mind of light, and the spirit free,
And the bosom that heaves alone for me.
Oh! these are the sweets that kindly stay
From youth's gay morning to age's night;
When beauty's rainbow tints decay,
Love's torch still burns with a holy light.
Soon will the bloom of the fairest fade,
And love will droop in the cheerless shade,
Or if tears should fall on his wing of joy,
It will hasten the flight of the laughing boy.
But oh! the light of the constant soul
Nor time can darken nor sorrow dim;
Though wo may weep in life's mingled bowl,
Love still shall hover around its brim.
Scheme | AABBCACA DDEEFGFG HHIIJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110111 1011011101 1011110101 101011101 1110110101 010111101 111100101 1010111 101011111 1011100111 1011100101 0010110111 111011101 111101101 111101 111110101 110110101 01110011 1111111111 11100110101 110110101 111101101 111101101 111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 974 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 253 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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