Analysis of Valiant Love
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
I.
Now fie upon that everlasting life! I dye!
She hates! Ah me! It makes me mad;
As if love fir'd his torch at a moist eye,
Or with his joyes e're crown'd the sad.
Oh, let me live and shout, when I fall on;
Let me ev'n triumph in the first attempt!
Loves duellist from conquest 's not exempt,
When his fair murdresse shall not gain one groan,
And he expire ev'n in ovation.
II.
Let me make my approach, when I lye downe
With counter-wrought and travers eyes;
With peals of confidence batter the towne;
Had ever beggar yet the keyes?
No, I will vary stormes with sun and winde;
Be rough, and offer calme condition;
March in and pread, or starve the garrison.
Let her make sallies hourely: yet I'le find
(Though all beat of) shee's to be undermin'd.
III.
Then may it please your little excellence
Of hearts t' ordaine, by sound of lips,
That henceforth none in tears dare love comence
(Her thoughts ith' full, his, in th' eclipse);
On paine of having 's launce broke on her bed,
That he be branded all free beauties' slave,
And his own hollow eyes be domb'd his grave:
Since in your hoast that coward nere was fed,
Who to his prostrate ere was prostrated.
Scheme | AABABXCCXD AEFEXBDDGG AXHFHIJJIB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1 11011010111 11111111 11110111011 111111101 1111011111 11111000101 111101101 111111111 0101110010 1 1111011111 11010101 1111001001 11010101 1111011101 110101010 1001110100 1011011101 111111101 1 1111110100 11111111 111101111 0111101101 11110111101 1111011101 0111011111 1011110111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,199 |
Words | 219 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 293 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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