Analysis of Hymn Of Hippolytus To Artemis
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Artemis! thou fairest
Of the maids that be
In divine Olympus,
Hail! Hail to thee!
To thee I bring this woven weed
Culled for thee from a virgin mead,
Where neither shepherd claims his flocks to feed
Nor ever yet the mower's scythe hath come.
There in the Spring the wild bee hath his home,
Lightly passing to and fro
Where the virgin flowers grow;
And there the watchful Purity doth go
Moistening with dew-drops all the ground below,
Drawn from a river untaintedly flowing,
They who have gained by a kind fate's bestowing
Pure hearts, untaught by philosophy's care,
May gather the flowers in the mead that are blowing,
But the tainted in spirit may never be there.
Now, O Divinest, eternally fair,
Take thou this garland to gather thy hair,
Brought by a hand that is pure as the air.
For I alone of all the sons of men
Hear thy pure accents, answering thee again.
And may I reach the goal of life as I began the race,
Blest by the music of thy voice, though darkness ever veil thy face!
Scheme | XAXABBBXXCCCCDDEDE EEEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110 10111 001010 1111 11111101 11110101 1101011111 110101111 1001011111 1010101 1010101 0101010011 111110101 11010110 11111011010 111111 1100100011110 101001011011 11101001 1111011011 1101111101 1101110111 11110100101 01110111110101 1101011111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 970 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 7 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 388 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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