Analysis of The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I

John Milton 1608 (Cheapside) – 1674 (Chalfont St Giles)



Quis multa gracilis te puer in Rosa
Rendred almost word for word without Rhyme according to the
Latin Measure, as near as the Language permit.

WHAT slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours
Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave,
Pyrrha for whom bind'st thou
In wreaths thy golden Hair,
Plain in thy neatness; O how oft shall he
On Faith and changed Gods complain: and Seas
Rough with black winds and storms
Unwonted shall admire:
Who now enjoyes thee credulous, all Gold,
Who alwayes vacant, alwayes amiable                                  
Hopes thee; of flattering gales
Unmindfull.  Hapless they
To whom thou untry'd seem'st fair.  Me in my vow'd
Picture the sacred wall declares t' have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern God of Sea.

[The Latin text follows.]


Scheme AAX AXXXBXXXXXXXXXXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111010 1111101101010 101011101001 110111101 1111001101 111111 011101 1011011111 110110101 111101 1101 111110011 111011000 1111001 1101 11111111011 10010101111 110101 101111 010110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 767
Words 132
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 16, 1
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 198
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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