Analysis of Angels and air

Lily Mae 2011 (Missouri)



Twice or thrice had I loved thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame,
Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
But since my soul, whose child love is,
Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,
More subtle than the parent is,
Love must not be, but take a body too;
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid love ask, and now
That it assume thy body I allow,
And fix itself to thy lip, eye, and brow.

Whilst thus to ballast love I thought,
And so more steadily to have gone,
With wares which would sink admiration,
I saw I had love's pinnace overfraught
Every thy hair for love to work upon
Is much too much, some fitter must be sought;
For, nor in nothing, nor in things
Extreme and scatt'ring bright, can love inhere.
Then as an angel, face and wings
Of air, not pure as it, yet pure doth wear,
So thy love may be my love's sphere.
Just such disparity
As is 'twixt air and angel's purity,
'Twixt women's love and men's will ever be.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 01111111 1001100101 1001110101 11111111 11010010111 11111111 1111011101 11010101 1111110101 0111101 111101 1101110101 0101111101 11110111 011100111 11111010 1111111 10011111101 1111110111 11010101 01011111 11110101 1111111111 11111111 110100 111101100 1101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,061
Words 229
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 14
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 402
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Written on August 31, 2022

Submitted by lily.mathews0902 on August 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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