Analysis of Jewels: A Young Man to a Merchant
Herbert Asquith 1881 – 1947
OLD Man, your pearls are not for us,
Your rubies die too soon:
Have you the pearls of Sirius,
Or opals of the moon?
I do not ask for other gems;
Flashing with frost and fire
The sky's undying diadems
Shall be my love's attire.
Emeralds, that into rubies melt
Upon the brow of night,
I've taken from Orion's belt
To make her girdle bright.
On high ways of the albatross
I scale the purple air
For sapphires of the Southern Cross
And wreath them in her hair
Her robe it is the morning sky,
Her veil it is the West;
So robed, so veiled my love will fly.
When I am gone to rest.
Yet all the rays of all the moons,
The lights of all the skies
Are pale beside the dim lagoons
Of those mysterious eyes.
Old Man, your pearls are not for us,
Your rubies die too soon:
Have you the pearls of Sirius,
Or opals of the moon
Scheme | ABAB xcac dede xfxf ghgh ijij ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 110111 110111 11101 11111101 1011010 010101 1111010 10101101 010111 11010101 110101 1111010 110101 110010101 011001 01110101 011101 11111111 111111 11011101 011101 11010101 1101001 11111111 110111 110111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 847 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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