Analysis of Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa
Richard Crashaw 1612 (London) – 1649 (Loreto, Marche)
O THOU undaunted daughter of desires!
By all thy dower of lights and fires;
By all the eagle in thee, all the dove;
By all thy lives and deaths of love;
By thy large draughts of intellectual day,
And by thy thirsts of love more large than they;
By all thy brim-fill'd bowls of fierce desire,
By thy last morning's draught of liquid fire;
By the full kingdom of that final kiss
That seized thy parting soul, and seal'd thee His;
By all the Heav'n thou hast in Him
(Fair sister of the seraphim!);
By all of Him we have in thee;
Leave nothing of myself in me.
Let me so read thy life, that I
Unto all life of mine may die!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGGHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101010 111111010 1101001101 11110111 1111101001 0111111111 11111111010 11110111010 1011011101 1111010111 11011101 110101 11111101 1101101 11111111 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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