Analysis of Being Treated. To Ellinda
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
For cherries plenty, and for corans
Enough for fifty, were there more on's;
For elles of beere, flutes of canary,
That well did wash downe pasties-Mary;
For peason, chickens, sawces high,
Pig, and the widdow-venson-pye;
With certaine promise (to your brother)
Of the virginity of another,
Where it is thought I too may peepe in
With knuckles far as any deepe in;
For glasses, heads, hands, bellies full
Of wine, and loyne right-worshipfull;
Whether all of, or more behind--a
Thankes freest, freshest, faire Ellinda.
Thankes for my visit not disdaining,
Or at the least thankes for your feigning;
For if your mercy doore were lockt-well,
I should be justly soundly knockt-well;
Cause that in dogrell I did mutter
Not one rhime to you from dam-Rotter.
Next beg I to present my duty
To pregnant sister in prime beauty,
Whom well I deeme (e're few months elder)
Will take out Hans from pretty Kelder,
And to the sweetly fayre Mabella,
A match that vies with Arabella;
In each respect but the misfortune,
Fortune, Fate, I thee importune.
Nor must I passe the lovely Alice,
Whose health I'd quaffe in golden chalice;
But since that Fate hath made me neuter,
I only can in beaker pewter:
But who'd forget, or yet left un-sung
The doughty acts of George the yong-son?
Who yesterday to save his sister
Had slaine the snake, had he not mist her:
But I shall leave him, 'till a nag on
He gets to prosecute the dragon;
And then with helpe of sun and taper,
Fill with his deeds twelve reames of paper,
That Amadis, Sir Guy, and Topaz
With his fleet neigher shall keep no-pace.
But now to close all I must switch-hard,
[Your] servant ever;
LOVELACE RICHARD.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJDD BBDDFGKE AADDXKDDXKDDAAHDH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010011 011100111 111111010 11111110 111011 1001101 11101110 1001001010 111111110 110111010 11011101 110111 101111010 1101011 111101010 110111110 111101011 111101011 11011110 111111110 111110110 110100110 1111111110 111111010 0101011 01111010 010110010 101111 111101010 111101010 111111110 110101010 110111111 010111011 11011110 110111110 111111011 11110010 011111010 111111110 111101 11111111 111111111 11010 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,639 |
Words | 292 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 8, 17 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 426 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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