Analysis of To Lucasta Ode Lyrick



I.
Ah LUCASTA, why so bright?
Spread with early streaked light!
If still vailed from our sight,
What is't but eternall night?

II.
Ah LUCASTA, why so chaste?
With that vigour, ripenes grac't,
Not to be by Man imbrac't
Makes that Royall coyne imbace't,
And this golden Orchard waste!

III.
Ah LUCASTA, why so great,
That thy crammed coffers sweat?
Yet not owner of a seat
May shelter you from Natures heat,
And your earthly joyes compleat.

IV.
Ah Lucasta, why so good?
Blest with an unstained flood
Flowing both through soule and blood;
If it be not understood,
'Tis a Diamond in mud.

V.
LUCASTA! stay! why dost thou flye?
Thou art not bright but to the eye,
Nor chaste but in the mariage-tye,
Nor great but in this treasurie,
Nor good but in that sanctitie.

VI.
Harder then the Orient stone,
Like an apparition,
Or as a pale shadow gone,
Dumbe and deafe she hence is flowne.

VII.
Then receive this equall dombe:
Virgins, strow no teare or bloome,
No one dig the Parian wombe;
Raise her marble heart i'th' roome,
And 'tis both her coarse and tombe.


Scheme ABBBB ACBBBC AXXDDB EFGGFG EAAAXB AHXXH EIIIII
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1 11111 111011 1111101 111111 1 11111 11111 111111 111011 0110101 1 11111 111101 1110101 11011101 011011 1 11111 111011 1011101 111101 101001 1 111111 11111101 1110011 111011 111011 1 1010101 11010 110111 1011111 1 101111 1011111 111011 101011111 0110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,134
Words 192
Sentences 23
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 6
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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