A Song. In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover
Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721
In vain you tell your parting lover
You wish fair winds may waft him over
Alas! what winds can happy prove
That bear me far from what I love?
Alas! what dangers on the main
Can equal those that I sustain
From slighted vows and cold disdain?
Be gentle, and in pity choose
To wish the wildest tempests loose,
That thrown again upon the coast
Where first my shipwreck'd heart was lost,
I may once more repeat my pain,
Once more in dying notes complain
Of slighted vows and cold disdain.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AAXXBBB XXXXBBB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 93 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
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