Analysis of A Chaucerian Paraphrase of Horace

Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)



Syn that you, Chloe, to your moder sticken,
Maketh all ye yonge bacheloures full sicken;
Like as a lyttel deere you ben y-hiding
Whenas come lovers with theyre pityse chiding;
Sothly it ben faire to give up your moder
For to beare swete company with some oder;
Your moder ben well enow so farre shee goeth,
But that ben not farre enow, God knoweth;
Wherefore it ben sayed that foolysh ladyes
That marrye not shall leade an aype in Hadys;
But all that do with gode men wed full quickylye
When that they be on dead go to ye seints full sickerly.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011101 11111110 1101111110 111011110 1111111110 11111001110 1101111111 11111111 1111111 111111101 1111111111 111111111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 540
Words 104
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 430
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Eugene Field

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. more…

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