Analysis of Three Songs



LOVE, thou art best of Human Joys,
 Our chiefest Happiness below;
All other Pleasures are but Toys,
Musick without Thee is but Noise,
 And Beauty but an empty Show.
Heav'n, who knew best what Man wou'd move,
 And raise his Thoughts above the Brute;
Said, Let him Be, and let him Love;
That must alone his Soul improve,
 Howe'er Philosophers dispute.

Quickly, Delia, Learn my Passion,
 Lose not Pleasure, to be Proud;
Courtship draws on Observation,
 And the Whispers of the Croud.

Soon or late you'll hear a Lover,
 Nor by Time his Truth can prove;
Ages won't a Heart discover,
 Trust, and so secure my Love

'TIS strange, this Heart within my breast,
 Reason opposing, and her Pow'rs,
Cannot one gentle Moment rest,
 Unless it knows what's done in Yours.
In vain I ask it of your Eyes,
 Which subt'ly would my Fears controul;
For Art has taught them to disguise,
 Which Nature made t' explain the Soul.

In vain that Sound, your Voice affords,
 Flatters sometimes my easy Mind;
But of too vast Extent are Words
 In them the Jewel Truth to find.

Then let my fond Enquiries cease,
 And so let all my Troubles end:
For, sure, that Heart shall ne'er know Peace,
 Which on Anothers do's depend.


Scheme ABAABCDECD FXFD GCGE HAHXIBIX XJXJ KLKL
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 10110001 11010111 10011111 01011101 11111111 01110101 11110111 11011101 10010001 10101110 1110111 111010 0010101 11111010 1111111 10101010 1010111 11110111 10010001 10110101 01111101 01111111 111111 11111101 110110101 01111101 1011101 11110111 01010111 111111 01111101 11111111 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,185
Words 215
Sentences 8
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 10, 4, 4, 8, 4, 4
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 151
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Anne Kingsmill Finch

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (née Kingsmill), was an English poet and courtier. Finch's works often express a desire for respect as a female poet, lamenting her difficult position as a woman in the literary establishment and the court, while writing of "political ideology, religious orientation, and aesthetic sensibility". Her works also allude to other female authors of the time, such as Aphra Behn and Katherine Phillips. Through her commentary on the mental and spiritual equality of the genders and the importance of women fulfilling their potential as a moral duty to themselves and to society, she is regarded as one of the integral female poets of the Restoration Era. Finch died in Westminster in 1720 and was buried at her home at Eastwell, Kent.  more…

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