Metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another. The thing spoken about is the tenor, and the object to which it is compared is the vehicle.
Dactyl. A dactyl is a poetic foot made up of a strongly stressed syllable followed by two weakly stressed syllables, as in the word happily.
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Like many English poems of this period, “Song, to Celia” is a lyric poem honoring a goddess-like and unattainable woman. Each of the two eight-line stanzas has its own individual rhyme scheme. Jonson uses a variety of meters in this poem, mainly iambic, but there are also many lines and phrases that begin on an accented syllable. Moreover, the poem’s lines are not all the same length; they vary from three to five feet, with most of the odd lines being at least one foot longer than the even ones.
What lengths have you gone to to attain a specific goal?
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