Analysis of Bon Voyage - And Vice Versa
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Propertius: Elegy VIII, Part 1
"Tune igitur demens nec te mea cura moratur?---"
O Cynthia, hast thou lost thy mind?
Have I no claim on thine affection?
Dost love the chill Illyrian wind
With something passing predilection?
And is thy friend--whoe'er he be--
The kind to take the place of me?
Ah, canst thou bear the surging deep?
Canst thou endure the hard ship's-mattress?
For scant will be thy hours of sleep
From Staten Island to Cape Hatt'ras;
And won't thy fairy feet be froze
With treading on the foreign snows?
I hope that doubly blows the gale,
With billows twice as high as ever,
So that the captain, fain to sail,
May not achieve his mad endeavor!
The winds, when that they cease to roar,
Shall find me wailing on the shore.
Yet merit thou my love or wrath,
O False, I pray that Galatea
May smile upon thy watery path!
A pleasant trip,--that's the idea.
Light of my life, there never shall
For me be any other gal.
And sailors, as they hasten past,
Will always have to hear my query:
"Where have you seen my Cynthia last?
Has anybody seen my dearie?"
I'll shout: "In Malden or Marquette
Where'er she be, I'll have her yet!"
Scheme | X A BCBCDD EXEXFF GAGAAA HIHIJJ KAKALL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011 11111111 110011111 111111010 110101001 11010010 0111111 01110111 11110101 110101110 111111011 110101111 01110111 11010101 11110101 110111110 11010111 110111010 01111111 11110101 11011111 11111010 110111001 010110010 11111101 11110101 01011101 11111110 111111001 11000111 11010101 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,135 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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