Analysis of Ho, everyone that thirsteth



Ho, everyone that thirsteth
And hath the price to give,
Come to the stolen waters,
Drink and your soul shall live.

Come to the stolen waters,
And leap the guarded pale,
And pull the flower in season
Before desire shall fail.

It shall not last for ever,
No more than earth and skies;
But he that drinks in season
Shall live before he dies.

June suns, you cannot store them
To warm the winter's cold,
The lad that hopes for heaven
Shall fill his mouth with mold.


Scheme xxAx Abcb xdcd xece
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11011 010111 1101010 101111 1101010 010101 01010010 0101011 1111110 111101 1111010 110111 1111011 110101 0111110 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 453
Words 89
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 11, 2023

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Alfred Edward Housman

Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.  more…

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