Analysis of On ------ Embroydring
Thomas Parnell 1679 (Dublin) – 1718
How justly art when Cælia aids so well
Contends her ms nature to excell
The slender needles in that hand create
Such forms as hers but of a better date
The silk is placd the winding traces laid
& the gay scene with rising figures spread
here springing lillies opening roses dress
in such sweet colours & so fixd a grace
they outdoe all but those wthin her face
the well turnd leaves if by the natrall shown
You'd think they both were workd or both had grown
So strange yet beautious birds are here designd
as if she had increasd the Phœnix kind
Sure had she livd wn poets tho below
Where meritt pleaded cou'd a heavn bestow
the wondrows product of her needle here
had made her self a goddess it a starr.
Oh may no moth so rare a piece approach
May nought corrupt it with unhallowd touch
May nothing—but alas I wast my prayr
My wishes rise to loose themselves in air.
This work wch angells wou'd not blush to own
Must once the common road of ruin run
then quickly fairest on yr life reflect
Nor all your downy hours of youth neglect
think you behold this lovely piece decayd
think you are brighter yet must sooner fade
then quitt your folly be no more severe
Why woud you have no difference appear
In how the ugly live & how the fair
& tell me Celie where the diffrence lyes
'twixt those who Cant & those who wont possess
When both alike are distanc't fm their bliss.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011110111 01011011 0101001101 1110110101 0111010101 011110101 1101100101 01111101 11111101 011111011 1111011111 11111111 1111101111 1111110101 1101010101 011010101 1101010101 1111110101 11011111 1101011111 1101110101 111111111 1101011101 1101011101 11110101101 110111011 1111011101 1111011101 1111110001 010101101 11101011 111111101 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,347 |
Words | 264 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 16 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 545 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 131 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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