Analysis of Valiant Love



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
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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Richard Lovelace

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