Analysis of Duet
Thomas Love Peacock 1785 (Weymouth, Dorset) – 1866
All my troubles disappear,
When the dinner-bell I hear,
Over woodland, dale, and fell,
Swinging slow with solemn swell,---
The dinner-bell! the dinner-bell!
What can bid my heart-ache fly?
What can bid my heart-ache die?
What can all the ills dispel,
In my morbid frame that dwell?
The dinner-bell! the dinner-bell!
Hark!---along the tangled ground,
Loudly floats the pleasing sound!
Sportive Fauns to Dryads tell,
'Tis the cheerful dinner-bell!
The dinner-bell! the dinner-bell!
| Scheme | xxaaA bbaaA ccaaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001 1010111 101101 1011101 01010101 1111111 1111111 1110101 0110111 01010101 1010101 1010101 11111 1010101 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 494 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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