Analysis of Music's Empire
Andrew Marvell 1621 (Winestead) – 1678 (London)
First was the world as one great cymbal made,
Where jarring winds to infant Nature played.
All music was a solitary sound,
To hollow rocks and murm'ring fountains bound.
Jubal first made the wilder notes agree;
And Jubal tuned music's Jubilee;
He call'd the echoes from their sullen cell,
And built the organ's city where they dwell.
Each sought a consort in that lovely place,
And virgin trebles wed the manly bass.
From whence the progeny of numbers new
Into harmonious colonies withdrew.
Some to the lute, some to the viol went,
And others chose the cornet eloquent,
These practicing the wind, and those the wire,
To sing men's triumphs, or in Heaven's choir.
Then music, the mosaic of the air,
Did of all these a solemn noise prepare;
With which she gain'd the empire of the ear,
Including all between the earth and sphere.
Victorious sounds! yet here your homage do
Unto a gentler conqueror than you;
Who though he flies the music of his praise,
Would with you Heaven's Hallelujahs raise.
Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEE XXFF GGXX EEHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1101111101 1101110101 110101001 110101101 111010101 0111010 1101011101 010110111 1100101101 010110101 1101001101 01010010001 110111011 0101001100 11000101010 11110101010 1100010101 1111010101 11110100101 0101010101 01001111101 1001010011 1111010111 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 996 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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