Analysis of Theophile Being Deny'd His Addresses To King James, Turned

Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657



THEOPHILE BEING DENY'D HIS ADDRESSES TO KING JAMES,
TURNED THE AFFRONT TO HIS OWN GLORY IN THIS EPIGRAM.

Si Jaques, le Roy du scavior,
    Ne trouue bon de me voir,
      Voila la cause infallible!
    Car, ravy de mon escrit,
    Il creut, que j'estois tout esprit
      Et par consequent invisible.

LINEALLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE FRENCH.

If James, the king of wit,
    To see me thought not fit,
      Sure this the cause hath been,
    That, ravish'd with my merit,
    He thought I was all spirit,
      And so not to be seen.


Scheme XX AABCCB X CCXCCX
Poetic Form
Metre 11011110111 1001111100110 110111 111111 1110100 11111 1111101 111000100 10101101 110111 111111 110111 111110 1111110 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 534
Words 92
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 6, 1, 6
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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