Analysis of An Anniversary On The Hymeneals Of My Noble kinsman, Tho. S
I.
The day is curl'd about agen
To view the splendor she was in;
When first with hallow'd hands
The holy man knit the mysterious bands
When you two your contracted souls did move
Like cherubims above,
And did make love,
As your un-understanding issue now,
In a glad sigh, a smile, a tear, a vow.
II.
Tell me, O self-reviving Sun,
In thy perigrination
Hast thou beheld a pair
Twist their soft beams like these in their chast air?
As from bright numberlesse imbracing rayes
Are sprung th' industrious dayes,
So when they gaze,
And change their fertile eyes with the new morn,
A beauteous offspring is shot forth, not born.
III.
Be witness then, all-seeing Sun,
Old spy, thou that thy race hast run
In full five thousand rings;
To thee were ever purer offerings
Sent on the wings of Faith? and thou, O Night,
Curtain of their delight,
By these made bright,
Have you not mark'd their coelestial play,
And no more peek'd the gayeties of day?
IV.
Come then, pale virgins, roses strow,
Mingled with Ios as you go.
The snowy ox is kill'd,
The fane with pros'lyte lads and lasses fill'd,
You too may hope the same seraphic joy,
Old time cannot destroy,
Nor fulnesse cloy;
When, like these, you shall stamp by sympathies
Thousands of new-born-loves with your chaste eyes.
Scheme | ABBCCDEEBX ABBFFCCXBB ABBGGHHHII DJJKKLLLXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (58%) Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 1 0111011 11010110 111101 01011001001 1111100111 1101 0111 111010101 0011010101 1 11110101 011 11101 1111110111 111111 111101001 1111 0111011011 01111111 1 11011101 11111111 011101 1101010100 1101110111 101101 1111 1111111 01110111 1 11110101 10110111 010111 01111011 11110111 111001 111 1111111100 1011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,428 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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