Analysis of The Mower to the Glow-Worms
Andrew Marvell 1621 (Winestead) – 1678 (London)
Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
The nightingale does sit so late,
And studying all the summer night,
Her matchless songs does meditate;
Ye county comets, that portend
No war nor prince's funeral,
Shining unto no higher end
Than to presage the grass's fall;
Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame
To wand'ring mowers shows the way,
That in the night have lost their aim,
And after foolish fires do stray;
Your courteous lights in vain you waste,
Since Juliana here is come,
For she my mind hath so displac'd
That I shall never find my home.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FXFX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11011111 01001111 010010101 011110 11010101 11110100 10101101 1110011 111111 11110101 10011111 010101011 110010111 1010111 11111101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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