Analysis of The Call
Henry Vaughan 1621 (Brecknockshire) – 1695
COME, my heart ! come, my head,
In sighs, and tears !
'Tis now, since you have lain thus dead,
Some twenty years ;
Awake, awake,
Some pity take
Upon yourselves !
Who never wake to groan, nor weep,
Shall be sentenc'd for their sleep.
Do but see your sad estate,
How many sands
Have left us, while we careless sate
With folded hands ;
What stock of nights,
Of days, and years
In silent flights
Stole by our ears ;
How ill have we ourselves bestow'd,
Whose suns are all set in a cloud !
Yet come, and let's peruse them all,
And as we pass,
What sins on every minute fall
Score on the glass ;
Then weigh, and rate
Their heavy state,
Until
The glass with tears you fill ;
That done, we shall be safe and good :
Those beasts were clean that chew'd the cud.
Scheme | AXABCCXDD EFEFGBGBXX HIHIEEJJXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 0101 11111111 1101 0101 1101 0101 11011111 1110111 1111101 1101 11111101 1101 1111 1101 0101 11101 111100101 11111001 11010111 0111 111100101 1101 1101 1101 01 011111 11111101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 762 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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