Analysis of To Ellinda Upon His Late Recovery. A Paradox

Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657



I.
How I grieve that I am well!
  All my health was in my sicknes,
Go then, Destiny, and tell,
  Very death is in this quicknes.

II.
Such a fate rules over me,
  That I glory when I languish,
And do blesse the remedy,
  That doth feed, not quench my anguish.

III.
'Twas a gentle warmth that ceas'd
  In the vizard of a feavor;
But I feare now I am eas'd
  All the flames, since I must leave her.

IV.
Joyes, though witherd, circled me,
  When unto her voice inured
Like those who, by harmony,
  Only can be throughly cured.

V.
Sweet, sure, was that malady,
  Whilst the pleasant angel hover'd,
Which ceasing they are all, as I,
  Angry that they are recover'd.

VI.
And as men in hospitals,
  That are maim'd, are lodg'd and dined;
But when once their danger fals,
  Ah th' are healed to be pined!

VII.
Fainting so, I might before
  Sometime have the leave to hand her,
But lusty, am beat out of dore,
  And for Love compell'd to wander.


Scheme ABCBC ADEDE AXFXF GDHDH DDIAI ACJCJ GFFFF
Poetic Form Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 1 1111111 1111011 1110001 1011011 1 1011101 11101110 0110100 11111110 1 1010111 001101 1111111 10111110 1 111101 1100101 1111100 101111 1 1111100 10101010 11011111 10111010 1 011010 1111101 1111101 11111111 1 1011101 1101110 11011111 01101110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,029
Words 177
Sentences 16
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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