Analysis of Love and the Novice
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
"Here we dwell, in holiest bowers,
Where angels of light o'er our orisans bend;
Where sighs of devotion and breathings of flowers
To heaven in mingled odour ascend.
Do not disturb our calm, oh Love!
So like is thy form to the cherubs above,
It well might deceive such hearts as ours."
Love stood near the Novice and listen'd,
And Love is no novice in taking a hint;
His laughing blue eyes soon with piety glisten'd;
His rosy wing turn'd to heaven's own tint.
"Who would have thought," the urchin cries,
"That Love could so well, so gravely disguise
His wandering wings, and wounding eyes?"
Love now warms thee, waking and sleeping,
Young Novice, to him all thy orisons rise.
He tinges the heavenly fount with his weeping,
He brightens the censer's flame with his sighs.
Love is the Saint enshrined in thy breast,
And angels themselves would admit such a guest,
If he came to them clothed in Piety's vest.
Scheme | ABABCCA DEDEFFF GFGFHHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010010 11011101011 11101001110 110010101 110110111 11111101001 1110111110 111010010 01111001001 110111110010 1101111011 11110101 1111111001 110010101 111110010 110111111 11010011110 110011111 110101011 01001101101 111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 912 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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