Analysis of Horace: Book 1, Ode 22
Samuel Johnson 1709 (Lichfield) – 1784 (London)
The man, my friend, whose conscious heart
With virtue's sacred ardour glows,
Nor taints with death the envenom'd dart,
Nor needs the guard of Moorish bows:
Though Scythia's icy cliffs he treads,
Or horrid Afric's faithless sands;
Or where the fam'd Hydaspes spreads
His liquid wealth o'er barbarous lands.
For while by Chloe's image charm'd,
Too far in Sabine woods I stray'd;
Me singing, careless and unarm'd,
A grisly wolf surprised, and fled.
No savage more portentous stain'd
Apulia's spacious wilds with gore;
None fiercer Juba's thirsty land,
Dire nurse of raging lions, bore.
Place me where no soft summer gale
Among the quivering branches sighs;
Where clouds condensed for ever veil
With horrid gloom the frowning skies;
Place me beneath the burning line,
A clime denied to human race;
I'll sing of Cloe's charms divine,
Her heavenly voice, and beauteous face.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DXDX XEXE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 01111101 111011 1111011 11011101 1110111 110111 110111 1101101001 1111101 11001111 11010001 01010101 11010101 110111 1101101 11110101 11111101 010100101 11011101 11010101 11010101 01011101 1111101 01001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 853 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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