Analysis of Calling Lucasta From Her Retirement. Ode



I.
From the dire monument of thy black roome,
Wher now that vestal flame thou dost intombe,
As in the inmost cell of all earths wombe.

II.
Sacred Lucasta, like the pow'rfull ray
Of heavenly truth, passe this Cimmerian way,
Whilst all the standards of your beames display.

III.
Arise and climbe our whitest, highest hill;
There your sad thoughts with joy and wonder fill,
And see seas calme as earth, earth as your will.

IV.
Behold! how lightning like a taper flyes,
And guilds your chari't, but ashamed dyes,
Seeing it selfe out-gloried by your eyes.

V.
Threatning and boystrous tempests gently bow,
And to your steps part in soft paths, when now
There no where hangs a cloud, but on your brow.

VI.
No showrs but 'twixt your lids, nor gelid snow,
But what your whiter, chaster brest doth ow,
Whilst winds in chains colder for sorrow blow.

VII.
Shrill trumpets doe only sound to eate,
Artillery hath loaden ev'ry dish with meate,
And drums at ev'ry health alarmes beate.

VIII.
All things Lucasta, but Lucasta, call,
Trees borrow tongues, waters in accents fall,
The aire doth sing, and fire is musicall.

IX.
Awake from the dead vault in which you dwell,
All's loyall here, except your thoughts rebell
Which, so let loose, often their gen'rall quell.

X.
See! she obeys!  By all obeyed thus,
No storms, heats, colds, no soules contentious,
Nor civill war is found; I meane, to us.

XI.
Lovers and angels, though in heav'n they show,
And see the woes and discords here below,
What they not feele, must not be said to know.


Scheme ABBB ACCC ADDD EFFF EGGG AHHH EIII EJJD FKDK FFFF FHHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1011001111 111101111 100111111 1 1011011 110011111 1101011101 1 01011010101 1111110101 0111111111 1 0111010101 01111011 101111111 1 1011101 0111101111 1111011111 1 111111111 111101111 1101101101 1 110110111 0100111111 0111111 1 111111 111100101 011101011 1 0110110111 110101111 1111101111 1 110111011 111111010 111111111 1 1001010111 010101101 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,682
Words 272
Sentences 26
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:23 min read
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