Analysis of The Indian Lover. Morning Song.
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793 (Liverpool, Lancashire) – 1835 (Dublin, County Dublin)
O'ER flowery fields of waving maize,
The breeze of morning lightly plays;
Arise, my Zumia! let us rove,
The cool and fragrant citron grove!
Fair nature spreads her lavish bloom,
And bids her zephyrs waft perfume;
She breathes ambrosial odours rare;
With cassia-fragrance fills the air,
And calls thee forth her sweets to share,
My lovely maid!
We'll mark each aromatic flower,
Expanding to the radiant hour;
We'll seek the scented orange-bower,
Or tam'rind shade;
Now, ere the fervid hours of day,
Arise, my Zumia! haste away!
Hark! from yonder palmy grove,
Swells the choral song of love!
There, on every weeping spray,
Warblers tune the melting lay:
Morning's roseate hues are spreading
Balmy essence, flowers are shedding;
Nature smiles, in green array,
My Zumia rise! no more delay!
Now glitt'ring in the lucid rays,
The humming-bird his wing displays
Floats on the sun-beam and the gale,
From spicy wood, to myrtle-vale;
Flutters on light, ethereal plume,
In tints of orient beauty drest;
Steals honey from the glowing bloom,
And weaves the fairy-nest.
I'll climb each tall, aspiring tree,
To seek nectareous fruits for thee;
I'll cull the blossoms op'ning fair,
In blushing wreaths to bind thy hair:
For thee the streams in murmurs flow;
For thee the buds empurpling glow;
For thee the balmy zephyrs play;
Arise, my Zumia! haste away!
Scheme | aabbccdddefffe gGbxgghhgg aaiicecx jjddkkgG |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (38%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 1010011101 01110101 0111111 01010101 11010101 01010101 1101011 110010101 01110111 1101 11101010 0101010010 110101010 1111 110101011 0111101 111011 1010111 11100101 1010101 101001110 101010110 1010101 1111101 1100101 01011101 11011001 11011101 101101001 01110101 11010101 010101 11110101 111111 11010111 01011111 11010101 110111 11010101 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,309 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 10, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 263 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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