Analysis of An Ode
Anne Killigrew 1660 (London) – 1685 (London)
[I.]
Arise my Dove, from mid'st of Pots arise,
Thy sully'd Habitation leave,
To Dust no longer cleave,
Unworthy they of Heaven, that will not view the Skies.
Thy native Beauty re-assume,
Prune each neglected Plume,
Till more than Silver white,
Then burnisht Gold more bright,
Thus ever ready stand to take thy Eternal Flight.
II.
The Bird to whom the spacious Aire was given,
As in a smooth and trackless Path to go,
A Walk which does no Limits know
Pervious alone to Her and Heaven :
Should she her Airy Race forget,
On Earth affect to walk and sit;
Should she so high a Priviledge neglect,
As still on Earth, to walk and sit, affect,
What could she of Wrong complain,
Who thus her Birdly Kind doth stain,
If all her Feathers moulted were,
And naked she were left and bare,
The Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire?
III.
The Bird of Paradice the Soul,
Scheme | ABCCB DDEEE AFGGFXXHHIIJXJ AX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 01111111101 110101 111101 0101110111101 11010101 110101 111101 11111 1101011110101 1 01110101110 100101111 01111101 10110010 11010101 11011101 11110101 1111110101 1111101 1101111 1101010 01010101 01011101 1 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 831 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 14, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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