Analysis of A Mock Charon. Dialogue

Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657



CHA.  W.

W.    Charon! thou slave! thou fooll! thou cavaleer!
CHA.  A slave! a fool! what traitor's voice I hear?
W.    Come bring thy boat.    CH.  No, sir.    W.  No! sirrah, why?
CHA.  The blest will disagree, and fiends will mutiny
           At thy, at thy [un]numbred treachery.
W.    Villain, I have a pass which who disdains,
           I will sequester the Elizian plains.
CHA.  Woes me, ye gentle shades! where shall I dwell?
           He's come!  It is not safe to be in hell.

CHORUS.
      Thus man, his honor lost, falls on these shelves;
      Furies and fiends are still true to themselves.

CHA.  You must, lost fool, come in.    W.  Oh, let me in!
      But now I fear thy boat will sink with my ore-weighty sin.
      Where, courteous Charon, am I now?    CHA.  Vile rant!
      At the gates of thy supreme Judge Rhadamant.

DOUBLE CHORUS OF DIVELS.
      Welcome to rape, to theft, to perjurie,
      To all the ills thou wert, we canot hope to be;
      Oh, pitty us condemned!  Oh, cease to wooe,
      And softly, softly breath, least you infect us too.


Scheme A BBCDBEEFF XGG HHII EBDCA
Poetic Form
Metre 1100 10010111111 1010111111 1001111111100111 1011001011100 11111100 1001011011101 11010011 11111011111 1111111101 10 1111011111 101111101 11111101001110 11111111111101 110010111111 101110111 101011 10111111 11011111111 111011111 010101110111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,108
Words 182
Sentences 42
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 9, 3, 4, 5
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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