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 |
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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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