Analysis of Summons To Love



Phoebus, arise!
And paint the sable skies
With azure, white, and red:
Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed
That she may thy career with roses spread:
The nightingales thy coming each-where sing:
Make an eternal spring!
Give life to this dark world which lieth dead;
Spread forth thy golden hair
In larger locks than thou wast wont before,
And emperor-like decore
With diadem of pearl thy temples fair:
Chase hence the ugly night
Which serves but to make dear thy glorious light.

This is that happy morn,
That day, long-wished day,
Of all my life so dark,
(If cruel stars have not my ruin sworn,
And fates my hopes betray),
Which, purely white, deserves
An everlasting diamond should it mark.
This is the morn should bring unto this grove
My Love, to hear and recompense my love.
Fair King, who all preserves,
But show thy blushing beams
And thou two sweeter eyes
Shalt see than those which by Peneus' streams
Did once thy heart surprise.
Now, Flora, deck thyself in fairest guise:
If that ye winds would hear
A voice surpassing far Amphion's lyre,
Your furious chiding stay;
Let Zephyr only breathe,
And with her tresses play.
The winds all silent are,
And Phoebus in his chair
Ensaffroning sea and air
Makes vanish every star:
Night like a drunkard reels
Beyond the hills, to shun his flaming wheels:
The fields with flowers are decked in every hue,
The clouds with orient gold spangle their blue;
Here is the pleasant place,
And nothing wanting is, save She, alas!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1001 010101 110101 11101011 1111011101 01110111 110101 111111111 111101 0101111101 010011 110111101 110101 11111111001 111101 11111 111111 1101111101 011101 110101 101010111 1101111011 111101011 111101 111101 011101 11111111 111101 110110101 111111 01010111 1100101 110101 010101 011101 010011 1101 1101001 110101 0101111101 011101101001 0111011011 110101 0101011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,438
Words 260
Sentences 9
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 30
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 582
Words per stanza (avg) 129
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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William Henry Drummond

William Henry Drummond April 13 1854 April 6 1907 was an Irish-born Canadian poet He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom in 1898 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899 more…

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