Analysis of Lucasta's World Epode
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
I.
Cold as the breath of winds that blow
To silver shot descending snow,
Lucasta sigh't; when she did close
The world in frosty chaines!
And then a frowne to rubies frose
The blood boyl'd in our veines:
Yet cooled not the heat her sphere
Of beauties first had kindled there.
II.
Then mov'd, and with a suddaine flame
Impatient to melt all againe,
Straight from her eyes she lightning hurl'd,
And earth in ashes mournes;
The sun his blaze denies the world,
And in her luster burnes:
Yet warmed not the hearts, her nice
Disdaine had first congeal'd to ice.
III.
And now her teares nor griev'd desire
Can quench this raging, pleasing fire;
Fate but one way allowes; behold
Her smiles' divinity!
They fann'd this heat, and thaw'd that cold,
So fram'd up a new sky.
Thus earth, from flames and ice repreev'd,
E're since hath in her sun-shine liv'd.
Scheme | ABBCCCCXX AXXDCDXEE AFFGXGADX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11011111 11010101 1111111 010101 01011101 0110101 1110101 11011101 1 1101011 0101111 11011101 010101 01110101 000101 1110101 1110111 1 010111010 111101010 1111101 010100 11110111 111011 1111011 111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 901 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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