XLII. ‘Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving’

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XLII. ‘Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving’

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aa (100%: 1)

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Statistics

Line-groups or stanzas:	1
Poetic lines:	2
Speeches (verse drama):	0
Length in words:	17
Average word length:	3.94
End rhymes:	2
Masculine rhymes:	0
Feminine rhymes:	2
Dactylic rhymes:	0
Half rhymes:	0
Eye rhymes:	0
Identical rhymes:	0
Syllabic rhymes:	0
Cross-stanza rhymes:	0
Internal rhyme:	0
Anaphora:	0
Epistrophe:	0
Refrain:	0
Sonic device variant:	0

XLII.

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Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving,1

For life is too good to be wasted in living.2

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XLII. ‘Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving’

Poet(s)

Sterling, John
Pseudonym:
Archæus

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Markup Editor

Kaitlyn Fralick

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 48:298, 287, August 1840.

First line

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving,

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Notes and attribution research

Included under the general title “Thoughts in Rhyme” (280-8) (SK). Author attribution: Archæus is the pseudonym of John Sterling (AC).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 11298

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