Analysis of Farewell The Bowl
John Pierpont 1785 (Litchfield) – 1866 (Medford)
Farewell to the cup, we have tarried too long,
Where the juice of the grape adds its witch'ry to song.
And the thoughts that flow'd freely are sombre and dull,
Our brains become heavy, farewell to the bowl,
Farewell, farewell, farewell, farewell to the bowl.
Oh, tarry no longer where joy flies away,
The heart and the soul lose their richest array,
Where eye mocketh eye, as unmeaning they roll,
The tongue whispers folly-farewell to the bowl.
Oh, think, if the maiden, who smiles in thine eyes,
Once saw thy proud mind in this shameful disguise;
Her heart would reject thee, how sadly her soul
Would pity and leave thee-oh, flee from the bowl.
Oh think, e'er the moment of thinking is past,
And chains of the mighty upon thee are cast!
Return-ere the iron shall enter thy soul,
And the dregs of thy life-a curse on the bowl.
Scheme | AAXBB CCBB DDBB EEBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111111 10110111111 00111101101 10101101101 1111101 11011011101 01001111001 11111111 0110101101 11101011011 11111011001 01101111001 11001111101 111001011011 01101001111 01101011011 00111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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