Analysis of Maryette Myers



Air -- "Lily of the West"

Come all you sympathizing friends, wherever you may be,
I pray you pay attention and listen unto me;
For it's of a fair young lady, she died, she went to rest,
She was called handsome Maryette, the lily of the west.

Her name was Maryette Myers, and her age I do not know,
Her cheeks were red as roses, her eyes were black as sloes;
She was loved by all surrounding friends, and some that loved her best,
They called her handsome Maryette, the lily of the west.

She was a fair young damsel as ever you wish to see,
And in the circle of her friends they miss her company;
They miss the merry laughter of that loved one gone to rest,
They called her handsome Maryette, the lily of the west.

She was before the looking glass, poor girl, her hair to comb,
She was taken blind, she nearly fell, she only gave a moan,
Her friends they caught her in their arms and laid her down to rest,
She was the handsome Maryette, the lily of the west.

She was away from home, and her mother dear had come
To see her darling daughter, her dear loving one;
She left a true lover, a lover with the rest,
That loved this handsome Maryette, the lily of the west.

"She was buried on her wedding day," these words a friend gave,
Her lover went as a mourner, a mourner to her grave,
His name was Forest Dilly, a young man over west,
He loved this handsome Maryette, the lily of the west.


Scheme a bbaa xxaA bbaA xxaa xxaa ccaa
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 1111001010111 1111010010101 11101110111111 111101010101 0111100011111 0101110010111 111110101011101 110101010101 11011101101111 00010101110100 11010101111111 110101010101 11010101110111 111011101110101 01110011010111 110101010101 1101110010111 110101001101 110110010101 111101010101 11101010111011 01011010010101 1111010011101 111101010101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,370
Words 273
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:21 min read
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Julia A Moore

Julia Ann Moore was an American poetaster. Like Scotland's William McGonagall, she is famed chiefly for writing notoriously bad poetry. more…

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