Analysis of Friendship's Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia



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  COme, my Lucasia, since we see
    That Miracles Mens faith do move,
    By wonder and by prodigy
  To the dull angry world let's prove
    There's a Religion in our Love.

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  For though we were design'd t' agree,
    That Fate no liberty destroyes,
  But our Election is as free
    As Angels, who with greedy choice
   Are yet determin'd to their joyes.

Our hearts are doubled by the loss,
   Here Mixture is Addition grown ;
 We both diffuse, and both ingross :
   And we whose minds are so much one,
   Never, yet ever are alone.

We court our own Captivity
   Than Thrones more great and innocent :
 'Twere banishment to be set free,
   Since we wear fetters whose intent
   Not Bondage is, but Ornament.

Divided joyes are tedious found,
   And griefs united easier grow :
 We are our selves but by rebound,
   And all our Titles shuffled so,
   Both Princes, and both Subjects too.

Our Hearts are mutual Victims laid,
   While they (such power in Friendship lies)
 Are Altars, Priests, and Off'rings made :
   And each Heart which thus kindly dies,
   Grows deathless by the Sacrifice.


Scheme ABABX AAAXA XCAXC ADAXD EFEFX GHGHX
Poetic Form
Metre 1 111111 11001111 11001100 10110111 100100101 1 111001101 1111001 110010111 11011101 11010111 101110101 11010101 1101011 01111111 10110101 111010100 11110100 11001111 11110101 11011100 010111001 010101001 111011101 011010101 11001101 1011100101 111100101 11010111 01111101 111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,080
Words 181
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 20, 2023

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Katherine Philips

Katherine Philips was an Anglo-Welsh poet, translator, and woman of letters. more…

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