Analysis of Alexander And Lycon
Coventry Patmore 1823 (Woodford, London) – 1896 (Lymington)
‘What, no crown won,
These two whole years,
By man of fortitude beyond his peers,
In Thrace or Macedon?’
‘No, none.
But what deep trouble does my Lycon feel,
And hide 'neath chat about the commonweal?’
‘Glaucé but now the third time did again
The thing which I forbade. I had to box her ears.
'Twas ill to see her both blue eyes
Settled in tears
Despairing on the skies,
And the poor lip all pucker'd into pain;
Yet, for her sake, from kisses to refrain!’
‘Ho, Timocles, take down
That crown.
No, not that common one for blood with extreme valour spilt,
But yonder, with the berries gilt.
'Tis, Lycon, thy just meed.
To inflict unmoved
And firm to bear the woes of the Beloved
Is fortitude indeed.’
Scheme | ABBA ACC XBDXDEE FFGGGXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1111 111100111 0111 11 111101111 01110101 111011101 011101111101 11110111 1001 010101 001111011 1101110101 1111 11 1111011110111 11010101 11111 10101 0111011001 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 7, 8 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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