Analysis of Milton (Alcaics)



O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies,
  O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity,
      God-gifted organ-voice of England,
          Milton, a name to resound for ages;
  Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel,
  Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries,
      Tower, as the deep-domed empyrean
          Rings to the roar of an angel onset--
  Me rather all that bowery loneliness,
  The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring,
      And bloom profuse and cedar arches
          Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean,
  Where some refulgent sunset of India
  Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle,
      And crimson-hued the stately palm-woods
          Whisper in odorous heights of even.


Scheme ABCDEAFGHIDFJEKF
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101100 11111110100 110101110 100111110 110101001 11010101 1010111 110111101 11011100100 011101100 010101010 1101001010 11111100 11001010101 010101011 1001001110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 672
Words 98
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 477
Words per stanza (avg) 96
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.  more…

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