Analysis of A Mock Song
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
I.
Now Whitehall's in the grave,
And our head is our slave,
The bright pearl in his close shell of oyster;
Now the miter is lost,
The proud Praelates, too, crost,
And all Rome's confin'd to a cloister.
He, that Tarquin was styl'd,
Our white land's exil'd,
Yea, undefil'd;
Not a court ape's left to confute us;
Then let your voyces rise high,
As your colours did flye,
And flour'shing cry:
Long live the brave Oliver-Brutus.
II.
Now the sun is unarm'd,
And the moon by us charm'd,
All the stars dissolv'd to a jelly;
Now the thighs of the Crown
And the arms are lopp'd down,
And the body is all but a belly.
Let the Commons go on,
The town is our own,
We'l rule alone:
For the Knights have yielded their spent-gorge;
And an order is tane
With HONY SOIT profane,
Shout forth amain:
For our Dragon hath vanquish'd the St. George.
Scheme | ABBCDDCEEDFAAAF AGGHIIHXJJKIXIK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 1 11001 01011101 0110111110 101011 01111 011011010 11111 10111 11 10111111 111111 11111 01011 110110010 1 101101 001111 101011010 101101 001111 0010111010 101011 011101 11101 101110111 011011 11101 111 11010110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 928 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 15 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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