Analysis of A Song On The Baths



What Angel stirrs this happy Well,
 Some Muse from thence come shew't me,
One of those naked Graces tell
 That Angels are for beauty:
The Lame themselves that enter here
 Come Angels out againe,
And Bodies turne to Soules all cleere,
 All made for joy, noe payne.

Heate never was so sweetely mett
 With moist as in this shower:
Old men are borne anew by swett
 Of its restoring pow'r:
When crippl'd joynts we suppl'd see,
 And second lives new come,
Who can deny this Font to be
 The Bodies Christendome?

One Bath so fiery is you'l thinke
 The Water is all Spirit,
Whose quick'ning streames are like the drink
 Whereby we Life inheritt:
The second Poole of middle straine
 Can wive Virginity,
Tempting the blood to such a vayne
 One sexe is He and She.

The third where horses plunge may bring
 A Pegasus to reare us,
And call for pens from Bladud's wing
 For legging those that beare us.
Why should Physitians thither fly
 Where Waters med'cines be,
Physitians come to cure thereby,
 And are more cur'd than we


Scheme ABABXCXC DXDXBXBB EDEDCBCB EFEFGBGB
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101 11111111 11110101 1101110 01011101 11011 01011111 111111 1101111 1110110 11110111 1101011 1101111 010111 11011111 0101 1111001111 0101110 11111101 01111 01011101 110100 10011101 111101 01110111 0100111 0111111 1101111 11111 11011 111111 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 987
Words 183
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 196
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Strode

William Strode (c. 1602 – 1645) was an English poet, Doctor of Divinity and Public Orator of Oxford University, one of the Worthies of Devon of John Prince (d.1723). more…

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