Analysis of Three Verse Passages From A Prose Meditation
Thomas Parnell 1679 (Dublin) – 1718
On verdurd trees ye silver blossoms grow
Whose leaves atop their perfect whiteness show
& faintly streak with stains of red below
The western breeze steales ore ye shady grove
to sigh near roses as insnard by love.
The waves pushed on by waves in mountains ly
Mixd with ye clouds ye Parent waters fly
& the cross'd winds roar hideous in ye sky
The east & west the south & north contend
While the vexd sea beneath is neithers friend
Above ye winds below the billows Jarr
& nature is become the seat of warr
Look how ye silent waters stealing by
With such smooth motions as deceive our eye
Returns ye pleasing pictures of ye sky
There shines ye sun with imitated rayes
her borrowd light ye paler moon displays
& ye cleare heavens wear an azure face
So lett thy temper due composure find
By all the modest rules that bound ye mind
That Whether fortune with a storm assails
Or Courts thy wishes with indulgent gales
No passion interpose a cloud between
But on thy bosome undisturbd within
May natures God & natures form [be seen]
Scheme | AAAXX BBBCCAX BBBDDDEEDDFXF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111110101 1101101101 101111101 0101111101 111101111 0111110101 1111110101 0111100011 01101101 101101111 0111010101 101010111 1111010101 11110101101 0111010111 111111001 01111101 111011101 1111010101 1101011111 1101010101 1111010101 110010101 1111101 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,009 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 13 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 276 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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