Analysis of To Anne: Oh, Say Not, Sweet Anne
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Oh, say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreed
The heart which adores you should wish to dissever;
Such Fates were to me most unkind ones indeed,
To bear me from love and from beauty for ever.
Your frowns, lovely girl, are the Fates which alone
Could bid me from fond admiration refrain;
By these, every hope, every wish were o'erthrown,
Till smiles should restore me to rapture again.
As the ivy and oak, in the forest entwined,
The rage of the tempest united must weather;
My love and my life were by nature design'd
To flourish alike, or to perish together.
Then say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreed
Your lover should bid you a lasting adieu;
Till Fate can ordain that his bosom shall bleed,
His soul, his existence, are centred in you.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DBDB AEAE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11111101101 0110111111 11011101101 111110110110 11101101101 1111101001 111001100101 11101111001 101001001001 011010010110 11011011001 110011110010 11111101101 11011101001 11101111011 1110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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