Analysis of Acis and Galatea
Air.
Love in her eyes sits playing,
And sheds delicious death;
Love on her lips is straying,
And warbling in her breath;
Love on her breast sits panting,
And swells with soft desire;
Nor grace nor charm is wanting
To set the heart on fire.
Air.
O ruddier than the cherry!
O sweeter than the berry!
O Nymph more bright
Than moonshine night,
Like kidlings blithe and merry!
Ripe as the melting cluster!
No lily has such lustre;
Yet hard to tame
As raging flame,
And fierce as storms that bluster.
Scheme | Abcbcbdbd Aeeffe ddggd |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1 1001110 010101 1101110 0100001 1101110 0111010 1111110 1101110 1 111010 1101010 1111 111 111010 1101010 1101110 1111 1101 0111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 484 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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