Analysis of Mount Of Olives (I)
Henry Vaughan 1621 (Brecknockshire) – 1695
1.
SWEET, sacred hill ! on whose fair brow
My Saviour sate, shall I allow
Language to love,
And idolize some shade, or grove,
Neglecting thee ? such ill-plac'd wit,
Conceit, or call it what you please,
Is the brain's fit,
And mere disease.
2.
Cotswold and Cooper's both have met
With learn褠swains, and echo yet
Their pipes and wit ;
But thou sleep'st in a deep neglect,
Untouch'd by any ; and what need
The sheep bleat thee a silly lay,
That heard'st both reed
And sheepward play ?
3.
Yet if poets mind thee well,
They shall find thou art their hill,
And fountain too.
Their Lord with thee had most to do ;
He wept once, walk'd whole nights on thee :
And from thence?His suff'rings ended?
Unto glory
Was attended.
4.
Being there, this spacious ball
Is but His narrow footstool all ;
And what we think
Unsearchable, now with one wink
He doth comprise ; but in this air
When He did stay to bear our ill
And sin, this hill
Was then His Chair.
Scheme | ABBXXCDCDAEECXFGFG AXHIIJKJK ALLMMNHHN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11011111 1111101 1011 0101111 01011111 01111111 1011 0101 1 1010111 1110101 1101 111100101 01110011 01110101 11111 011 1 1110111 1111111 0101 11111111 11111111 011110 1010 1010 1 1011101 1111011 0111 11111 11011011 111111101 0111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 950 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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