Analysis of Lord Rochester’s Song
Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)
[CROMWELL, ACT I.]
'Hold, little blue-eyed page!'
So cried the watchers surly,
Stern to his pretty rage
And golden hair so curly--
'Methinks your satin cloak
Masks something bulky under;
I take this as no joke--
Oh, thief with stolen plunder!'
'I am of high repute,
And famed among the truthful:
This silver-handled lute
Is meet for one still youthful
Who goes to keep a tryst
With her who is his dearest.
I charge you to desist;
My cause is of the clearest.'
But guardsmen are so sharp,
Their eyes are as the lynx's:
'That's neither lute nor harp--
Your mark is not the minxes.
Your loving we dispute--
That string of steel so cruel
For music does not suit--
You go to fight a duel!'
Scheme | X ABABCDCD EFEFGXGG HIHIEFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 110111 1101010 111101 0101110 11101 1101010 111111 1111010 111101 0101010 110101 1111110 111101 1011110 111101 1111010 110111 111101 110111 111101 110101 1111110 110111 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 668 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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