Analysis of Love Inthron'd. Ode
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
I.
Introth, I do my self perswade,
That the wilde boy is grown a man,
And all his childishnesse off laid,
E're since LUCASTA did his fires fan;
H' has left his apish jigs,
And whipping hearts like gigs:
For t' other day I heard him swear,
That beauty should be crown'd in honours chair.
II.
With what a true and heavenly state
He doth his glorious darts dispence,
Now cleans'd from falsehood, blood and hate,
And newly tipt with innocence!
Love Justice is become,
And doth the cruel doome;
Reversed is the old decree;
Behold! he sits inthron'd with majestie.
III.
Inthroned in LUCASTA'S eye,
He doth our faith and hearts survey;
Then measures them by sympathy,
And each to th' others breast convey;
Whilst to his altars now
The frozen vestals bow,
And strickt Diana too doth go
A-hunting with his fear'd, exchanged bow.
IV.
Th' imbracing seas and ambient air
Now in his holy fires burn;
Fish couple, birds and beasts in pair
Do their own sacrifices turn.
This is a miracle,
That might religion swell;
But she, that these and their god awes,
Her crowned self submits to her own laws.
Scheme | ABCBCDDEE ABDBXFFGB AAHGHIIXI HEJEJXXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111111 10111101 011111 111111101 111111 010111 111011111 110111011 1 110101001 11110011 1111101 01011100 110101 010101 0110101 0111111 1 1011 111010101 11011100 0111110101 111101 01011 01010111 010111011 1 111101001 10110101 11010101 1111001 110100 110101 11110111 01111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,158 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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