Analysis of Song (Love)
Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,
Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,
Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth,
Disease that has more Joys than Health;
Though we blaspheme thee in our Pain,
And of Tyranny complain,
We are all better'd by thy Reign.
What Reason never can bestow,
We to this useful Passion owe:
Love wakes the dull from sluggish ease,
And learns a Clown the Art to please:
Humbles the Vain, kindles the Cold,
Makes Misers free, and Cowards bold;
And teaches airy Fops to think.
When full brute Appetite is fed,
And choaked the Glutton lies and dead;
Thou new Spirits dost dispense,
And fine'st the gross Delights of Sense.
Virtue's unconquerable Aid
That against Nature can persuade;
And makes a roving Mind retire
Within the Bounds of just Desire.
Chearer of Age, Youth's kind Unrest,
And half the Heaven of the blest!
Scheme | AABBCCC DDEEFFX GGHH IIXXJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 10010101 11110111 01111111 11110101 0110001 11110111 11010101 11110101 11011101 01010111 1001101 11010101 01010111 1111011 0101101 1110101 011010111 111 10110101 01010101 010111010 1111101 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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