Analysis of To Quintus Hirpinus
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots,
Pay them no heed, O Quintius!
So long as we
From care are free,
Vexations cannot cinch us.
Unwrinkled youth and grace, forsooth,
Speed hand in hand together;
The songs we sing
In time of spring
Are hushed in wintry weather.
Why, even flow'rs change with the hours,
And the moon has divers phases;
And shall the mind
Be racked to find
A clew to Fortune's mazes?
Nay; 'neath this tree let you and me
Woo Bacchus to caress us;
We're old, 't is true,
But still we two
Are thoroughbreds, God bless us!
While the wine gets cool in yonder pool,
Let's spruce up nice and tidy;
Who knows, old boy,
But we may decoy
The fair but furtive Lyde?
She can execute on her ivory lute
Sonatas full of passion,
And she bangs her hair
(Which is passing fair)
In the good old Spartan fashion.
Scheme | AABBC XDEED XXFFX BCGGC XBHHX XIJJI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 1100011 111111 1111 1111 11011 11011 1101010 0111 0111 1101010 110111010 00111010 0101 1111 0111010 11111101 1101011 11111 1111 1101111 101110101 1111010 1111 11101 011101 1110101001 101110 01101 11101 00111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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