Analysis of Amor Mysticus. Translations. From The Spanish Of Sor Marcela De Carpio.
John Milton Hay 1838 (Salem, Indiana) – 1905 ( Newbury, New Hampshire)
Let them say to my Lover
That here I lie!
The thing of His pleasure,
His slave am I.
Say that I seek Him
Only for love,
And welcome are tortures
My passion to prove.
Love giving gifts
Is suspicious and cold;
I have all, my Beloved,
When Thee I hold.
Hope and devotion
The good may gain;
I am but worthy
Of passion and pain.
So noble a Lord
None serves in vain,
For the pay of my love
Is my love's sweet pain.
I love Thee, to love Thee, -
No more I desire;
By faith is nourished
My love's strong fire.
I kiss Thy hands
When I feel their blows;
In the place of caresses
Thou givest me woes.
But in Thy chastising
Is joy and peace.
O Master and Love,
Let Thy blows not cease.
Thy beauty, Beloved,
With scorn is rife,
But I know that Thou lovest me,
Better than life.
And because thou lovest me,
Lover of mine,
Death can but make me
Utterly Thine.
I die with longing
Thy face to see;
Oh! sweet is the anguish
Of death to me!
Scheme | ABAB XCXX XDED XFGF XFCF GAXA XHXH IJCJ EKGK GLGL IGXG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (91%) |
Metre | 1111110 1111 011110 1111 11111 1011 010110 11011 1101 101001 111101 1111 10010 0111 11110 11001 11001 1101 101111 11111 111111 111010 11110 11110 1111 11111 0011010 1111 101010 1101 11001 11111 11001 1111 1111111 1011 001111 1011 11111 1001 11110 1111 111010 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 907 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 07, 2023
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