Analysis of In An Illuminated Missal
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
I would have loved: there are no mates in heaven;
I would be great: there is no pride in heaven;
I would have sung, as doth the nightingale
The summer's night beneath the moone pale,
But Saintes hymnes alone in heaven prevail.
My love, my song, my skill, my high intent,
Have I within this seely book y-pent:
And all that beauty which from every part
I treasured still alway within mine heart,
Whether of form or face angelical,
Or herb or flower, or lofty cathedral,
Upon these sheets below doth lie y-spred,
In quaint devices deftly blazoned.
Lord, in this tome to thee I sanctify
The sinful fruits of worldly fantasy.
Scheme | AABBBCCDDBECCFG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111111010 11111111010 1111110100 010101011 1110101001 1111111101 1101110111 01110111001 110110111 1011111 11110110010 0111011111 01010101 1011111100 0101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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