Analysis of Anacreontic. "The Wisest Men Are Fools In Wine."
Thomas Gent 1780
The wisest men are fools in wine,
Experience makes us think:
Its magic spells are so divine,
We reason--yet we drink!
How short's the longest life of man,
How soon its brightest laurels fade--
Then, as our life is but a span,
Let all its hours be joyous made.
Wine o'er the ardent restless mind
Entwines its poppy chain;
A solace, then, the wretched find.
In fictions of the brain.
Oh! as the charmed glass we sip,
We conquer care and pain:
It woos like woman's dewy lip,
To kiss--and come again!
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GFG X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011101 0100111 11011101 110111 11010111 11110101 111011101 111101101 110010101 11101 01010101 010101 1101111 110101 11110101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 493 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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