Analysis of Oh, Banquet Not
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
Oh, banquet not in those shining bowers,
Where Youth resorts, but come to me,
For mine's a garden of faded flowers,
More fit for sorrow, for age, and thee.
And there we shall have our feast of tears,
And many a cup in silence pour;
Our guests, the shades of former years,
Our toasts, to lips that bloom no more.
There, while the myrtle's withering boughs
Their lifeless leaves around us shed,
We'll brim the bowl to broken vows
To friends long lost, the changed, the dead.
Or, while some blighted laurel waves
Its branches o'er the dreary spot,
We'll drink to those neglected graves
Where valour sleeps, unnamed, forgot.
Scheme | ABABXCXC DEDEFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011010 11011111 1101011010 111101101 0111110111 010010101 101011101 101111111 11011001 11010111 11011101 11110101 11110101 110100101 11110101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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