Analysis of Nay, Tell Me Not, Dear

Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)



Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns
One charm of feeling, one fond regret;
Believe me, a few of thy angry frowns
Are all I've sunk in its bright wave yet.
Ne'er hath a beam
Been lost in the stream
That ever was shed from thy form or soul;
The spell of those eyes,
The balm of thy sighs,
Still float on the surface, and hallow by bowl.
Then fancy not, dearest, that wine can steal
One blissful dream of the heart from me;
Like founts that awaken the pilgrim's zeal,
The bowl but brightens my love for thee.

They tell us the Love in his fairy bower
Had two blush-roses, of birth divine;
He sprinkled the one with a rainbow's shower,
But bathed the other with mantling wine.
Soon did the buds
That drunk of the floods
Distill'd by the rainbow decline and fade;
While those which the tide
Of ruby had dyed
All blush'd into beauty, like thee, sweet maid!
Then fancy not, dearest, that wine can steal
One blissful dream of the heart from me;
Like founts that awaken the pilgrim's zeal,
The bowl but brightens my love for thee.


Scheme ababccdeedFGFG hihijjkllkFGFG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110101 111101101 0110111101 111101111 1101 11001 1101111111 01111 01111 11101001011 1101101111 110110111 1110100101 011101111 11101011010 111101101 1100110110 11010111 1101 11101 011010101 11101 11011 1101101111 1101101111 110110111 1110100101 011101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,039
Words 197
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 14
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 400
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Moore

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