Analysis of Verses On Receiving A Flower From His Mistress
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
Madam, the flower that I received from you,
Ere I came home, had lost its lovely hue:
As flowers deprived of the genial day,
Its sprightly bloom did wither and decay;
Dear, fading flower, I know full well, said I,
The reason why you shed your sweets and die;
You want the influence of her enlivening eye.
Your case is mine -- Absence, that plague of love!
With heavy pace makes every minute move:
It of my being is an empty blank,
And hinders me myself with men to rank;
Your cheering presence quickeneth me again,
And new-sprung life exults in every vein.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010110111 1111111101 1100110101 1101110001 11010111111 0101111101 1101001001001 1111101111 11011100101 1111011101 010111111 110101101 01110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 432 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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