Analysis of Verses to Clarinda
Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)
Fair Empress of the poet's soul,
And Queen of poetesses;
Clarinda, take this little boon,
This humble pair of glasses:
And fill them up with generous juice,
As generous as your mind;
And pledge them to the generous toast,
"The whole of human kind!"
"To those nwho love us!" second fill;
But not to those whom we love;
Lest we love those who love not us -
A third - "To thee and me, love!"
Scheme | XAXA ABXB XCAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 0111 01011101 1101110 011111001 1100111 011101001 011101 11111101 1111111 11111111 0111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 398 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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