Analysis of Eyes
Charles Lamb 1775 (Inner Temple, London) – 1834 (Edmonton, London)
Lucy, what do you espy
In the cast in Jenny's eye
That should you to laughter move?
I far other feelings prove.
When on me she does advance
Her good-natured countenance,
And those eyes which in their way
Saying much, so much would say,
They to me no blemish seem,
Or as none I them esteem;
I their imperfection prize
Above other clearer eyes.
Eyes do not as jewels go
By the brightness and the show,
But the meanings which surround them,
And the sweetness shines around them.
Isabel's are black as jet,
But she cannot that forget,
And the pains she takes to show them
Robs them of the praise we owe them.
Ann's, though blue, affected fall;
Kate's are bright, and fierce withal;
And the sparklers of her sister
From ill-humour lose their lustre.
Only Jenny's eyes we see,
By their very plainness, free
From the vices which do smother
All the beauties of the other.
Scheme | AXBBXXCCDDEE FFGG HHGGIIJJAAJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110 0010101 1111101 1110101 1111101 0110100 0111011 1011111 1111101 1111101 110101 0110101 1111101 1010001 10101011 00101011 11111 1110101 00111111 11101111 1110101 111011 0011010 1111110 1010111 111011 10101110 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 844 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4, 12 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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