Analysis of Sing -- Sing -- Music Was Given
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
Sing -- sing -- Music was given
To brighten the gay, and kindle the loving;
Souls here, like planets in heaven,
By harmony's laws alone are kept moving.
Beauty may boast of her eyes and her cheeks,
But Love from the lips his true archery wings;
And she, who but feathers the dart when she speaks,
At once sends it home to the heart when she sings.
Then sing -- sing -- Music was given,
To brighten the gay, and kindle the loving;
Souls here, like planets in heaven,
By harmony's laws alone are kept moving.
When Love, rock'd by his mother,
Lay sleeping as calm as slumber could make him,
"Hush, hush," said Venus, "no other
Sweet voice but his own is worthy to wake him."
Dreaming of music he slumber'd the while,
Till faint from his lip a soft melody broke,
And Venus, enchanted, look'd on with a smile,
While Love to his own sweet singing awoke.
Then sing -- sing -- Music was given,
To brighten the gay, and kindle the loving;
Souls here, like planets in heaven,
By harmony's laws alone are kept moving.
Scheme | aBABcdcdABAB efefghghABAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 11001010010 11110010 111011110 1011101001 11101111001 01111001111 11111101111 11110110 11001010010 11110010 111011110 1111110 11011110111 11110110 11111110111 101101101 11111011001 01001011101 1111111001 11110110 11001010010 11110010 111011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,014 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 381 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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