Analysis of An Hymn To The Morning
Phillis Wheatley 1753 (West Africa) – 1784 (Boston)
ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,
Assist my labours, and my strains refine;
In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,
For bright Aurora now demands my song.
Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.
Ye shady groves, your verdant gloom display
To shield your poet from the burning day:
Calliope awake the sacred lyre,
While thy fair sisters fan the pleasing fire:
The bow'rs, the gales, the variegated skies
In all their pleasures in my bosom rise.
See in the east th' illustrious king of day!
His rising radiance drives the shades away--
But Oh! I feel his fervid beams too strong,
And scarce begun, concludes th' abortive song.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGHCCFFBB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011111011 011101101 0101010101 1101010111 0101010101 111110101 011010101 111010101 01001010101 1011010101 1101110101 1111010101 010010101 11110101010 0101010001 0111001101 1001110100111 11010010101 1111110111 010101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 677 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 148 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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