Analysis of A Dialogue Betwixt Cordanus And Amoret, On A Lost Heart
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
Cord. Distressed pilgrim, whose dark clouded eyes
Speak thee a martyr to love's cruelties,
Whither away?
Amor. What pitying voice I hear,
Calls back my flying steps?
Cord. Pr'ythee, draw near.
Amor. I shall but say, kind swain, what doth become
Of a lost heart, ere to Elysium
It wounded walks?
Cord. First, it does freely flye
Into the pleasures of a lover's eye;
But, once condemn'd to scorn, it fetter'd lies,
An ever-bowing slave to tyrannies.
Amor. I pity its sad fate, since its offence
Was but for love. Can tears recall it thence?
Cord. O no, such tears, as do for pity call,
She proudly scorns, and glories at their fall.
Amor. Since neither sighs nor tears, kind shepherd, tell,
Will not a kiss prevail?
Cord. Thou may'st as well
Court Eccho with a kiss.
Amor. Can no art move
A sacred violence to make her love?
Cord. O no! 'tis only Destiny or Fate
Fashions our wills either to love or hate.
Amor. Then, captive heart, since that no humane spell
Hath power to graspe thee his, farewell.
Cord. Farewell.
Cho. Lost hearts, like lambs drove from their folds by fears,
May back return by chance, but not by tears.]
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 1011011101 110101110 1001 101100111 111101 1111 101111111101 1011110100 1101 1111101 0101010101 1101111101 1101011100 10110111111 111111111 11111111101 1101010111 101101111101 110101 111111 11101 101111 0101001101 11111010011 10101101111 101101111011 11011111 11 11111111111 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,415 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 31 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 856 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 357 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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