Analysis of To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
If to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that when I am gone,
You or I were alone, -
Then, my Lucasta, might I crave
Pity from blust'ring wind or swallowing wave.
But I'll not sigh one blast or gale
To swell my sail,
Or pay a tear to 'suage
The foaming blue god's rage;
For whether he will let me pass
Or no, I'm still as happy as I was.
Though seas and land betwixt us both,
Our faith and troth,
Like separated souls,
All time and space controls:
Above the highest sphere we meet
Unseen, unknown, and greet as angels greet.
So then we do anticipate
Our after-fate,
And are alive i'th' skies,
If thus our lips and eyes
Can speak like spirits unconfined
In Heaven, their earthy bodies left behind.
Scheme | AAXXBB CCDDXX EEFFGG HHIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110011 0111 111111 111001 111111 10111111001 11111111 1111 110111 010111 11011111 1111110111 11010111 10101 11001 110101 01010111 0101011101 1111010 10101 01011111 1110101 1111001 01011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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