Analysis of To My Lord Colrane
Anne Killigrew 1660 (London) – 1685 (London)
In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of CLEANOR.
Long my dull Muse in heavy slumbers lay,
Indulging Sloth, and to soft Ease gave way,
Her Fill of Rest resolving to enjoy,
Or fancying little worthy her employ.
When Noble Cleanors obliging Strains
Her, the neglected Lyre to tune, constrains.
Confus'd at first, she rais'd her drowsie Head,
Ponder'd a while, then pleas'd, forsook her Bed.
Survey'd each Line with Fancy richly fraught,
Re-read, and then revolv'd them in her Thought.
And can it be? she said, and can it be?
That 'mong the Great Ones I a Poet see?
The Great Ones? who their Ill-spent time devide,
'Twixt dang'rous Politicks, and formal Pride,
Destructive Vice, expensive Vanity,
In worse Ways yet, if Worse there any be:
Leave to Inferiours the despised Arts,
Let their Retainers be the Men of Parts.
But here with Wonder and with Joy I find,
I'th' Noble Born, a no less Noble Mind;
One, who on Ancestors, does not rely
For Fame, in Merit, as in Title, high!
The Severe Godess thus approv'd the Laies:
Yet too much pleas'd, alas, with her own Praise.
But to vain Pride, My Muse, cease to give place,
Virgils immortal Numbers once did grace
A Smother'd Gnat: by high Applause is shown,
If undeserv'd, the Praisers worth alone:
Nor that you should believ'r, is't always meant,
'Tis often for Instruction only sent,
To praise men to Amendment, and display,
By its Perfection, where their Weakness lay.
This Use of these Applauding Numbers make
Them for Example, not Encomium, take.
Scheme | X AABBCCDDEE FFDXFFGGHHII CXJJKKLLAAMM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101111011100111 111101011 0101011111 0111010101 111010001 11010101 0001011101 011111011 1001110101 0111110101 1101011001 0111110111 1101110101 011111111 1110101 0101010100 0111111101 1110011 1101010111 1111001111 111101011101 111101101 1101010101 001110101 1111011011 1111111111 101010111 0101110111 10101101 111111111 1101010101 1111010001 1101011101 1111010101 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,493 |
Words | 266 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 293 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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