Analysis of Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever;

David McKee Wright 1869 – 1928



Farewell love and all thy laws forever;
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.
Senec and Plato call me from thy lore
To perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavour.
In blind error when I did persever,
Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store
And scape forth, since liberty is lever.
Therefore farewell; go trouble younger hearts
And in me claim no more authority.
With idle youth go use thy property
And thereon spend thy many brittle darts,
For hitherto though I have lost all my time,
Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughs to climb.


Scheme ABBAABBACDDCEE
Poetic Form
Metre 110111010 1101110111 101011111 10111111010 01101111 110111111 1111101011 0111100110 11110101 0011110100 1101111100 0011110101 1111111111 1111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 572
Words 108
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 458
Words per stanza (avg) 106
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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David McKee Wright

David McKee Wright was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia. more…

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