Analysis of Odes From Horace. - To Liguria. Book The Fourth, Ode The Tenth.
Anna Seward 1742 (Eyam) – 1809
O thou! exulting in the charms,
Nature, with lavish bounty, showers,
When youth no more thy spirit warms,
And stealing age thy pride alarms,
For fleeting graces, and for waning powers;
When all the shining locks, that now
Adown those ivory shoulders bound,
With deaden'd colour shade thy brow,
And fall as from th' autumnal bough
Leaves, that rude winds have scatter'd on the ground;
And on that cheek the tints, that shame
May's orient light and Summer's rose,
Dim as yon taper's sullen flame,
Shall, in a dusky red, proclaim
That not one hue in wonted lustre glows;
When wrinkles o'er LIGURIA's face
Their daily strengthening furrows lead;
When faithful mirrors cease to place
In her charm'd sight each blooming grace,
And will no more her heart's proud triumph feed;
Then the chang'd Maid, with secret shame,
Shall thus the past, and present chide;
O! why, amid the loud acclaim,
That gave my rising charms to Fame,
Swell'd this coy bosom with disdainful pride?
Or why, since now the wish to yield
Steals pensive thro' each melting vein,
The ice dissolv'd, that scorn congeal'd,
And every tender thought reveal'd,
Why, vanish'd BEAUTY, com'st not thou again?
Scheme | ABXAB CDCCD EFEEF GXGGX EHEEH IXIIX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010001 101101010 11111101 01011101 11010011010 11010111 11100101 111111 0111110101 1111110101 01110111 11010101 1111101 1001101 111101101 1101011 11010011 11010111 00111101 0111011101 10111101 11010101 11010101 11110111 1111010101 11110111 11011101 01011101 010010101 11010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,147 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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