Analysis of Female Glory



Mongst the worlds wonders, there doth yet remain
One greater than the rest, that's all those o're again,
And her own self beside: A Lady, whose soft breast
Is with vast honours soul and virtues life possest.
Fair as original light first from the chaos shot,
When day in virgin-beams triumph'd, and night was not,
And as that breath infus'd in the new-breather good,
When ill unknown was dumb, and bad not understood;
Chearful, as that aspect at this world's finishing,
When cherubims clapp'd wings, and th' sons of Heaven did sing;
Chast as th' Arabian bird, who all the ayr denyes,
And ev'n in flames expires, when with her selfe she lyes.
Oh! she's as kind as drops of new faln April showers,
That on each gentle breast spring fresh perfuming flowers;
She's constant, gen'rous, fixt; she's calm, she is the all
We can of vertue, honour, faith, or glory call,
And she is (whom I thus transmit to endless fame)
Mistresse oth' world and me, and LAURA is her name.


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFGGGGHHII
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011101 1101011111101 001101010111 1111101011 1101001110101 110101100111 011101001101 11011101101 1111111100 1111011111011 11110100111011 01101010110111 1111111111010 1111011101010 11011111101 1111111101 011111011101 11101010101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 953
Words 174
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 740
Words per stanza (avg) 172
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Richard Lovelace

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