Analysis of Ode to M E R C Y
William Taylor Collins 1721 (Sussex) – 1759 (Sussex)
S T R O P H E.
O THOU, who sit'st a smiling Bride
By Valour's arm'd and awful Side,
Gentlest of Sky-born Forms, and best ador'd:
Who oft with Songs, divine to hear,
Win'st from his fatal Grasp the Spear,
And hid'st in Wreaths of Flow'rs his bloodless Sword!
Thou who, amidst the deathful Field,
By Godlike Chiefs alone beheld,
Oft with thy Bosom bare art found,
Pleading for him the Youth who sinks to Ground:
See, Mercy, see, with pure and loaded Hands,
Before thy Shrine my Country's Genius stands,
And decks thy Altar still, tho' pierc'd with many a Wound!
A N T I S T R O P H E.
When he whom ev'n our Joys provoke,
The Fiend of Nature join'd his Yoke,
And rush'd in Wrath to make our Isle his Prey,
Thy Form, from out thy sweet Abode,
O'ertook Him on his blasted Road,
And stop'd his Wheels, and look'd his Rage away.
I see recoil his sable Steeds,
That bore Him swift to Salvage Deeds,
Thy tender melting Eyes they own;
O Maid, for all thy Love to Britain shown,
Where Justice bars her Iron Tow'r,
To Thee we build a roseate Bow'r,
Thou, Thou shalt rule our Queen, and share our Monarch's Throne!
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Metre | 1111111 111110101 1110101 10011110101 11110111 111110101 01101111101 1101011 111011 11110111 1011011111 1101110101 0111110101 0111011111001 01111111111 1111110101 01110111 01011110111 11111101 1111101 0111011101 11011101 11111101 11010111 1111111101 110101011 1111010011 1111101011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,168 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 13, 1, 13 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 208 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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