Analysis of Fill The Goblet Again: A Song
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Fill the goblet again! for I never before
Felt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core;
Let us drink!--who would not?--since, through life's varied round,
In the goblet alone no deception is found.
I have tried in its turn all that life can supply;
I have bask'd in the beam of a dark rolling eye;
I have loved!--who has not?--but what heart can declare
That pleasure existed while passion was there?
In the days of my youth, when the heart's in its spring,
And dreams that affection can never take wing,
I had friends!--who has not?--but what tongue will avow,
That friends, rosy wine! are so faithful as thou?
The heart of a mistress some boy may estrange,
Friendship shifts with the sunbeam--thou never canst change;
Thou grow'st old--who does not?--but on earth what appears,
Whose virtues, like thine, still increase with its years?
Yet if blest to the utmost that love can bestow,
Should a rival bow down to our idol below,
We aree jealous!--who is not?--thou hast no such alloy;
For the more that enjoy thee, the more we enjoy.
Then the season of youth and its vanities past,
For refuge we fly to the goblet at last;
There we find--do we not?--in the flow of the soul,
That truth, as of yore, is confined to the bowl.
When the box of Pandora was opened on earth,
And Misery's triumph commenced over Mirth,
Hope was left,--was she not?--but the goblet we kiss,
And care not for Hope, who are certain of bliss.
Long life to the grape! for when summer is flown,
The age of our nectar shall gladden our own:
We must die--who shall not?--May our sins be forgiven,
And Hebe shall never be idle in heaven.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN OOPP |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101001111001 10111111111 111111111101 001001101011 111011111101 111001101101 111111111101 11001011011 001111101011 01101011011 111111111101 11101111011 01101011101 10110111011 1111111111101 11011101111 11110111101 1010111101001 111011111111 101101101101 101011011001 11011101011 111111001101 11111101101 101101011011 011001101 111111101011 01111111011 11101111011 0111010110101 11111111011010 01110110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,620 |
Words | 308 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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