Analysis of Gracia
Nay, nay, Antonio! nay, thou shalt not blame her,
My Gracia, who hath so deserted me.
Thou art my friend, but if thou dost defame her
I shall not hesitate to challenge thee.
'Curse and forget her?' So I might another,
One not so bounteous-natured or so fair;
But she, Antonio, she was like no other—
I curse her not, because she was so rare.
She was made out of laughter and sweet kisses;
Not blood, but sunshine, through her blue veins ran
Her soul spilled over with its wealth of blisses;
She was too great for loving but a man.
None but a god could keep so rare a creature:
I blame her not for her inconstancy;
When I recall each radiant smile and feature,
I wonder she so long was true to me.
Call her not false or fickle. I, who love her,
Do hold her not unlike the royal sun,
That, all unmated, roams the wide world over
And lights all worlds, but lingers not with one.
If she were less a goddess, more a woman,
And so had dallied for a time with me,
And then had left me, I, who am but human,
Would slay her and her newer love, maybe.
But since she seeks Apollo, or another
Of those lost gods (and seeks him all in vain)
And has loved me as well as any other
Of her men loves, why, I do not complain.
Scheme | ABABACACDEDEABABAFAFFBFBAGAG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100111110 1101110101 11111111010 111101101 10010111010 111110111 110100111110 1101011111 11111100110 111110111 0111011111 1111110101 11011111010 1101100100 11111001010 1101111111 10111101110 1101010101 111101110 0111110111 11010101010 0111010111 01111111110 1100010110 11110101010 1111011101 01111111010 1011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,190 |
Words | 244 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 916 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 241 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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