Analysis of Black Eyes.
The Blue Eye will do if the courting is through
And the way of the marriage is sunny,
And it helps in the fun till the sweet life is done
If the girl brings a mint of good money.
But when aft or before the good parson's front door,
With calm or a storm on the track;
For Love red, red hot, with the ducats or not,
There is never an eye like the Black.
The Hazel is true to you all the way through,
And it burns with a light warm and steady;
Only if it is Fred that she has in her head,
It is burning for no one but Freddie.
But the Black Eye will veer and stake kingdoms to spear
Whatever it likes on the track,
And as a love-lance to its lord in the dance
There is never an eye like the Black.
Here then is good health and without or with wealth
To the deep raven eye of my charmer!
It's a heavenly spell when it loves very well,
Only when it does not it is warmer.
And it's little I care, only so I get there,
Whichever I find on the track,
For Heaven or Hell in its magical spell
There is never an eye like the Black.
Scheme | abxbxcxC abxbxcxC xdedxceC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101011 0011010110 011001101111 1011011110 11110101111 11101101 1111110111 111011101 01011111011 0111011010 101111111001 1110111110 101111011011 1011101 01011111001 111011101 11111001111 1011011110 101001111101 1011111110 011011101111 01011101 11011011001 111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,003 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 260 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 06, 2023
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