Overture
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
From “Thrasymedes and Eunoë”
WHO will away to Athens with me? who
Loves choral songs and maidens crown’d with flowers,
Unenvious? mount the pinnace; hoist the sail.
I promise ye, as many as are here,
Ye shall not, while ye tarry with me, taste
From unrins’d barrel the diluted wine
Of a low vineyard or a plant ill prun’d,
But such as anciently the Ægean isles
Pour’d in libation at their solemn feasts:
And the same goblets shall ye grasp, emboss’d
With no vile figures of loose languid boors,
But such as gods have liv’d with and have led.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A XXXXBABXXBXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
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