Analysis of Song
Lady Mary Chudleigh 1656 (Devon) – 1710
Why Damon, why, why, why so pressing?
The Heart you beg's not worth possessing:
Each Look, each Word, each Smile's affected,
And inward Charms are quite neglected:
Then scorn her, scorn her, foolish Swain,
And sigh no more, no more in vain.
Beauty's worthless, fading, flying;
Who would for Trifles think of dying?
Who for a Face, a Shape, wou'd languish,
And tell the Brooks, and Groves his Anguish,
Till she, till she thinks fit to prize him,
And all, and all beside despise him?
Fix, fix your Thoughts on what's inviting,
On what will never bear the slighting:
Wit and Virtue claim your Duty,
They're much more worth that Gold and Beauty:
To them, to them, your Heart resign,
And you'll no more, no more repine.
Scheme | AABBCC AADDEE AAFFXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111110 011111010 111111010 010111010 11010101 01111101 1101010 111101110 110101110 010101110 111111111 010101011 111111010 111101010 10101110 111111010 11111101 0111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 705 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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