Analysis of To Catullus
Robert Seymour Bridges 1844 (Walmer, Kent) – 1930 (Boars Hill, Berkshire)
Would that you were alive today, Catullus!
Truth ’tis, there is a filthy skunk amongst us,
A rank musk-idiot, the filthiest skunk,
Of no least sorry use on earth, but only
Fit in fancy to justify the outlay
Of your most horrible vocabulary.
My Muse, all innocent as Eve in Eden,
Would yet wear any skins of old pollution
Rather than celebrate the name detested.
Ev’n now might he rejoice at our attention,
Guess'd he this little ode were aiming at him.
O! were you but alive again, Catullus!
For see, not one among the bards of our time
With their flimsy tackle was out to strike him;
Not those two pretty Laureates of England,
Not Alfred Tennyson nor Alfred Austin.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001011 11110101011 011100011 11110111110 101011001 1111000100 11110011010 11110111010 1011001010 111101110010 11110101011 101101011 111101011101 11101011111 11110100110 11010011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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