Analysis of Let's Drink to our next Meeting
Hew Ainslie 1792 ( Dailly, Ayrshire) – 1878 (Louisville, Kentucky)
Let's drink to our next meeting, lads,
Nor think on what's atwixt;
They're fools wha spoil the present hour
By thinking on the next.
Chorus
Then here's to Meg o' Morningside,
An Kate o' Kittlemark;
The taen she drank her hose and shoon,
The tither pawned her sark.
A load o' wealth, an' wardly pelf,
They say is sair to bear;
Sae he's a gowk would scrape an' howk
To make his burden mair
Gif Care looks black the morn, lads,
As he's come doon the lum,
Let's ease our hearts by swearing, lads,
We never bade him come.
Then here's to our next meeting, lads,
Ne'er think on what's atwixt;
They're fools who spoil the present hour
By thinking on the next.
Scheme | abcB xbdxd xede afaf abcB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101101 11111 111101010 110101 10 111111 1111 01110101 01101 0111111 111111 11011111 111101 1111011 111101 111011101 110111 111101101 11111 111101010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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