Analysis of A Glee
Thomas Love Peacock 1785 (Weymouth, Dorset) – 1866
Quickly pass the social glass,
Hence with idle sorrow!
No delay---enjoy today,
Think not of tomorrow!
Life at best is but a span,
Let us taste it whilst we can;
Let us still with smiles confess,
All our aim is happiness!
Childish fears, and sighs and tears
Still to us are strangers;
Why destroy the bud of joy
With ideal dangers?
Let the song of pleasure swell;
Care with us shall never dwell;
Let us still with smiles confess,
All our aim is happiness!
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 111010 1010101 11101 1111101 1111111 1111101 11011100 1010101 111110 1010111 10110 1011101 1111101 1111101 11011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 447 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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