Analysis of A Black Patch On Lucasta's Face
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
Dull as I was, to think that a court fly
Presum'd so neer her eye;
When 'twas th' industrious bee
Mistook her glorious face for paradise,
To summe up all his chymistry of spice;
With a brave pride and honour led,
Neer both her suns he makes his bed,
And, though a spark, struggles to rise as red.
Then aemulates the gay
Daughter of day;
Acts the romantick phoenix' fate,
When now, with all his sweets lay'd out in state,
LUCASTA scatters but one heat,
And all the aromatick pills do sweat,
And gums calcin'd themselves to powder beat,
Which a fresh gale of air
Conveys into her hair;
Then chaft, he's set on fire,
And in these holy flames doth glad expire;
And that black marble tablet there
So neer her either sphere
Was plac'd; nor foyl, nor ornament,
But the sweet little bee's large monument.
Scheme | AABCCDDDEEFFGHGIIJKILMM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111011 011101 111101001 0101001110 11111111 1011011 11011111 0101101111 1101 1011 101101 1111111101 11111 0101111 011011101 101111 010101 1111110 0011011101 01110101 110101 11111100 1011011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 906 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 617 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 147 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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