Analysis of Farewell Ungrateful Traitor
John Dryden 1631 (Aldwincle) – 1631 (London)
Farewell ungrateful traitor,
Farewell my perjured swain,
Let never injured creature
Believe a man again.
The pleasure of possessing
Surpasses all expressing,
But 'tis too short a blessing,
And love too long a pain.
'Tis easy to deceive us
In pity of your pain,
But when we love you leave us
To rail at you in vain.
Before we have descried it,
There is no bliss beside it,
But she that once has tried it
Will never love again.
The passion you pretended
Was only to obtain,
But when the charm is ended
The charmer you disdain.
Your love by ours we measure
Till we have lost our treasure,
But dying is a pleasure,
When living is a pain.
Scheme | ABACDDDB EBEBFFFC GBGBAAAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 11101 1101010 010101 0101010 0101010 1111010 011101 1101011 010111 1111111 111101 011111 1111011 1111111 110101 0101010 110101 1101110 010101 11110110 11111010 1101010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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