Analysis of Retirement
Fresh fields and woods! the Earth's fair face,
God's foot-stool, and man's dwelling-place.
I ask not why the first Believer
Did love to be a country liver?
Who to secure pious content
Did pitch by groves and wells his tent;
Where he might view the boundless sky,
And all those glorious lights on high;
With flying meteors, mists and show'rs,
Subjected hills, trees, meads and flow'rs;
And ev'ry minute bless the King
And wise Creator of each thing.
I ask not why he did remove
To happy Mamre's holy grove,
Leaving the cities of the plain
To Lot and his successless train?
All various lusts in cities still
Are found; they are the thrones of ill;
The dismal sinks, where blood is spill'd,
Cages with much uncleanness fill'd.
But rural shades are the sweet fense
Of piety and innocence.
They are the Meek's calm region, where
Angels descend and rule the sphere,
Where heaven lies leiger, and the dove
Duly as dew, comes from above.
If Eden be on Earth at all,
'Tis that, which we the country call.
Scheme | AABBCCDDAAEEFGHHIIJJAKLMGNOO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 11101101 111101010 111101010 11011010 11110111 11110101 011100111 110100101 01011101 0110101 01010111 11111101 1101101 10010101 110111 110010101 11110111 01011111 101111 11011011 11000100 11011101 10010101 11011001 10111101 11011111 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,001 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 774 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 179 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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