Analysis of His Sweetheart
Sylvia's lattices were dark
Roses made them narrow.
In the dawn there came a Spark,
Armèd with an arrow:
Blithe he burst by dewy spray,
Winged by bud and blossom,
All undaunted urged his way
Straight to Sylvia's bosom.
'Sylvia! Sylvia! Sylvia!' he
Like a bee kept humming,
'Wake, my sweeting; waken thee,
For thy Soldier's coming!'
Sylvia sleeping in the dawn,
Dreams that Cupid's trill is
Roses singing on the lawn,
Courting crested lilies.
Sylvia smiles and Sylvia sleeps,
Sylvia weeps and slumbers;
Cupid to her pink ear creeps,
Pipes his pretty numbers.
Sylvia dreams that bugles play,
Hears a martial drumming;
Sylvia springs to meet the day
With her Soldier coming.
Happy Sylvia, on thee wait
All the gracious graces!
Venus mild her cestus plait
Round thy lawns and laces!
Flora fling a flower most fair,
Hope a rainbow lend thee!
All the nymphs to Cupid dear
On this day befriend thee!
'Sylvia! Sylvia! Sylvia!' hear
How he keeps a-humming,
Laughing in her jewelled ear,
'Sweet, thy Soldier's coming!'
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGXIHIXCFCF JHJXXEXEKFKF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101 101110 0011101 111110 1111101 111010 1010111 1110010 1001001001 101110 1110101 111010 10010001 11111 1010101 101010 100101001 100101 1010111 111010 10011101 101010 10011101 101010 10100111 101010 101011 111010 10101011 10111 1011101 111011 1001001001 111010 100011 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,047 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 393 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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