Analysis of Lucasta Weeping
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
I.
Lucasta wept, and still the bright
Inamour'd god of day,
With his soft handkercher of light,
Kist the wet pearles away.
II.
But when her teares his heate or'ecame,
In cloudes he quensht his beames,
And griev'd, wept out his eye of flame,
So drowned her sad streames.
III.
At this she smiled, when straight the sun
Cleer'd by her kinde desires;
And by her eyes reflexion
Fast kindl'd there his fires.
Scheme | ABCBC ADEDE AFEFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1 110101 1111 111111 101101 1 1101111 011111 01111111 11011 1 11111101 1101010 01011 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 454 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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