Analysis of Take not the Gods to task, for they are wise
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
Take not the Gods to task, for they are wise
When they refuse no less than when they grant.
Thou canst but know, with all thy bursting sighs,
What is thy whim, but never what thy want.
Did they, to smite thine importunity,
Answer each swift unregulated prayer,
Oh, what accursèd trudger woulds thou be,
And what a world of fardels have to bear!
Check thy lament. The days will surely come,
Thou wilt regard each crossed or shattered hope,
As now thou dost poor Philip's broken drum,
Or little Rosie's tangled skipping-rope.
Confide in Time, who will, as years expire,
Indulge, or else annihilate, desire.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111111 1101111111 1111111101 1111110111 111111 101101001 11111111 010111111 1101011101 1101111101 1111110101 1101010101 0101111101 0111010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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