Analysis of Du Bartas, His Divine Weeks and Works (excerpt)
Joshua Sylvester 1563 (England) – 1618
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But ev'n as many (or more) quarrels cumber
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Th' old heathen schools about the heavens' number.
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One holds but one; making the world's eyes shine
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Through the thin-thickness of that chrystal line,
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(As through the ocean's clear and liquid flood
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The slippery fishes up and down do scud).
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Another, judging certain by his eye,
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And, seeing sev'n bright lamps mov'd diversely,
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Turn this and that way: and, on th' other side,
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That all the rest of the heav'ns' twinkling pride
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Keep all one course; ingeniously, he varies
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The heav'ns' rich building into eight round stories.
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Others, amid the starriest orb, perceiving
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A triple cadence, and withal conceiving
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That but one natural course one body goes,
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Count nine, some ten; not numb'ring yet (with those)
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Th' empyreal palace, where th' eternal treasures
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Of nectar flow, where everlasting pleasures
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Are heaped-up, where an immortal May
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In blissful beauties flourisheth for ay,
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Where life still lives, where God his sises holds
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Environ'd round with seraphins and souls
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Bought with his precious blood, whose glorious flight
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Erst mounted earth above the heavens bright.
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Nor shall my faint and humble Muse presume
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So high a song and subject to assume.
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THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK (excerpts)
Rep. Poetry: 2RP.1.253.
Scheme | A bA bA cA cA dA dA xA xA eA eA fA fA gA gA hA hA iA iA jA jA xA xA kA kA lA l xx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1 111110111010 1 1111010101010 1 1111100111 1 1011011101 1 1101010101 1 01001010111 1 0101010111 1 01011111 1 110110111101 1 11011011001 1 11110100110 1 01110011110 1 1001011010 1 0101001010 1 11110011101 1 1111111111 1 1111011101010 1 1101101010 1 111110101 1 01010111 1 111111111 1 111101 1 11110111001 1 1101010101 1 1111010101 1 1101001101 1 011101110 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,446 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 28 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 56 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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