Analysis of Night. To Lucasta



Night! loathed jaylor of the lock'd up sun,
  And tyrant-turnkey on committed day,
Bright eyes lye fettered in thy dungeon,
  And Heaven it self doth thy dark wards obey.
    Thou dost arise our living hell;
    With thee grones, terrors, furies dwell;
      Until LUCASTA doth awake,
And with her beams these heavy chaines off shake.

Behold! with opening her almighty lid,
Bright eyes break rowling, and with lustre spread,
  And captive day his chariot mounted is;
    Night to her proper hell is beat,
    And screwed to her ebon seat;
Till th' Earth with play oppressed lies,
And drawes again the curtains of her eyes.

But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night;
  Whether she murth'ring sleep, or saving wake;
Now broyl'd ith' zone of her reflected light,
  Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake.
    Smile then, new Nature, your soft blast
    Doth melt our ice, and fires waste;
Whil'st the scorch'd shiv'ring world new born
Now feels it all the day one rising morn.


Scheme ABABCCDD XXXEEFF GDGDXXHH
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 010110101 111100110 01011111101 110110101 1111011 011101 0101110111 01110000101 111101101 01011100101 11010111 011011 111111011 0101010101 111110111 101111101 1111100101 1111111 11110111 111010101 1011111 1111011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 964
Words 165
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 7, 8
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 244
Words per stanza (avg) 54
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Richard Lovelace

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