Analysis of To Myra

James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)



O thou, whose tender serious eyes
Expressive speak the mind I love;
The gentle azure of the skies,
The pensive shadows of the grove;

O mix their beauteous beams with mine,
And let us interchange our hearts;
Let all their sweetness on me shine,
Poured through my soul be all their darts.

Ah! 'tis too much! I cannot bear
At once so soft, so keen a ray:
In pity then, my lovely fair,
O turn those killing eyes away!

But what avails it to conceal
One charm, where nought but charms I see?
Their lustre then again reveal,
And let me, Myra, die of thee!


Scheme AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 111101001 01010111 01010101 0101101 1111111 01101101 11110111 11111111 11111101 11111101 01011101 11110101 1111101 11111111 11010101 01110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 541
Words 107
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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James Thomson

James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. more…

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