Analysis of Come Girl, And Embrace
Frank James Prewett 1893 (Ontario, ) – 1962 (Inverness, )
Come girl, and embrace
And ask no more I wed thee;
Know then you are sweet of face,
Soft-limbed and fashioned lovingly;
Must you go marketing your charms
In cunning woman-like,
And filled with old wives' tales' alarms?
I tell you, girl, come embrace;
What reck we of churchling and priest
With hands on paunch, and chubby face?
Behold, we are life's pitiful least,
And we perish at the first smell
Of death, whither heaves earth
To spurn us cringing into hell.
Come girl, and embrace;
Nay, cry not, poor wretch, nor plead,
But haste, for life strikes a swift pace,
And I burn with envious greed:
Know you not, fool, we are the mock
Of gods, time, clothes, and priests?
But come, there is no time for talk.
Scheme | Ababcxc adadexe Afafxxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 0111111 1111111 11010100 11110011 010101 01111101 1111101 1111101 11110101 011111001 01101011 111011 11110011 11001 1111111 11111011 01111001 11111101 111101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 693 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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