Song - Shake off your heavy trance
Shake off your heavy trance,
And leap into a dance,
Such as no mortals use to tread,
Fit only for Apollo -
To play to, for the moon to lead,
And all the stars to follow!
O blessed youth! for Jove doth pause,
Laying aside his graver laws
For this device:
And at the wedding such a pair
Each dance is taken for a prayer,
Each song a sacrifice.
You should stay longer if we durst;
Away! Alas! that he that first
Gave Time wild wings to fly away,
Has now no power to make him stay.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABCBCDDEFFEGGHH |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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