Analysis of To Chloris



AH, Chloris! that I now could sit
   As unconcern'd as when
Your infant beauty could beget
   No pleasure, nor no pain!
When I the dawn used to admire,
   And praised the coming day,
I little thought the growing fire
   Must take my rest away.

Your charms in harmless childhood lay
   Like metals in the mine;
Age from no face took more away
   Than youth conceal'd in thine.
But as your charms insensibly
   To their perfection prest,
Fond love as unperceived did fly,
   And in my bosom rest.

My passion with your beauty grew,
   And Cupid at my heart,
Still as his mother favour'd you,
   Threw a new flaming dart:
Each gloried in their wanton part;
   To make a lover, he
Employ'd the utmost of his art--
   To make a beauty, she.


Scheme XXXXXAXA ABABCDCD EFEFFGFG
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 10111 11010101 110111 11011101 010101 110101010 111101 1101011 110001 11111101 110101 11111 110101 111111 001101 11011101 010111 1111011 101101 1101101 110101 0101111 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 742
Words 133
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 181
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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