Analysis of A Dialogue Between Thyrsis And Dorinda
Andrew Marvell 1621 (Winestead) – 1678 (London)
Dorinda
When Death, shall snatch us from these Kids,
And shut up our divided Lids,
Tell me Thyrsis, prethee do,
Whither thou and I must go.
Thyrsis
To the Elizium: (Dorinda) oh where i'st?
Thyrsis
A Chast Soul, can never mis't.
Dorinda
I know no way, but one, our home
Is our Elizium?
Thyrsis
Cast thine Eye to yonder Skie,
There the milky way doth lye;
'Tis a sure but rugged way,
That leads to Everlasting day.
Dorinda
There Birds may nest, but how can I,
That have no wings and cannot fly.
Thyrsis
Do not sigh (fair Nimph) for fire
Hath no wings, yet doth aspire
Till it hit, against the pole,
Heaven's the Center of the Soul.
Dorinda
But in Elizium how do they
Pass Eternity away.
Thyrsis
Ho, ther's, neither hope nor fear
Ther's no Wolf, no Fox, no Bear.
No need of Dog to fetch our stray,
Our Lightfoot we may give away;
And there most sweetly thine Ear
May feast with Musick of the Sphear.
How I my future state
By silent thinking, Antidate:
I preethe let us spend, our time come,
In talking of Elizium.
Thyrsis
Then I'le go on: There, sheep are full
Of softest grass, and softest wooll;
There, birds sing Consorts, garlands grow,
Cold winds do whisper,springs do flow.
There, alwayes is, a rising Sun,
And day is ever, but begun.
Shepheards there, bear equal sway,
And every Nimph's a Queen of May.
Dorinda
Ah me, ah me.
Thyrsis
Dorinda, why do'st Cry?
Dorinda
I'm sick, I'm sick, and fain would dye:
Convinc't me now, that this is true,
By bidding, with mee, all adieu
I cannot live, without thee, I
Will for thee,much more with thee dye.
Dorinda
Then let us give Corellia charge o'th Sheep,
And thou and I'le pick poppies and them steep
In wine, and drink on't even till we weep,
So shall we smoothly pass away in sleep.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010 11111111 011100101 11111 1010111 1 1010101111 1 01111011 010 111111101 1101 1 1111101 1010111 1011101 1110101 010 11111111 11110101 1 11111110 1111101 1110101 10010101 010 101111 1010001 1 1110111 1111111 111111101 10111101 0111011 11110101 111101 110101 111111011 01011 1 110111111 11010101 111111 111111 1110101 01110101 111101 010010111 010 1111 1 0101111 010 11110111 1111111 11011101 11010111 1111111 010 1111111111 01010110011 01011110111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,676 |
Words | 326 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 2, 3, 5, 3, 5, 3, 11, 9, 2, 2, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 63 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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