Analysis of Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine



Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,
Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!

Oh the Earth was made for lovers, for damsel, and hopeless swain,
For sighing, and gentle whispering, and unity made of twain.
All things do go a courting, in earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single but thee in His world so fair!
The bride, and then the bridegroom, the two, and then the one,
Adam, and Eve, his consort, the moon, and then the sun;
The life doth prove the precept, who obey shall happy be,
Who will not serve the sovereign, be hanged on fatal tree.
The high do seek the lowly, the great do seek the small,
None cannot find who seeketh, on this terrestrial ball;
The bee doth court the flower, the flower his suit receives,
And they make merry wedding, whose guests are hundred leaves;
The wind doth woo the branches, the branches they are won,
And the father fond demandeth the maiden for his son.
The storm doth walk the seashore humming a mournful tune,
The wave with eye so pensive, looketh to see the moon,
Their spirits meet together, they make their solemn vows,
No more he singeth mournful, her sadness she doth lose.
The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride,
Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide;
Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true,
And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue.
Now to the application, to the reading of the roll,
To bringing thee to justice, and marshalling thy soul:
Thou art a human solo, a being cold, and lone,
Wilt have no kind companion, thou reap'st what thou hast sown.
Hast never silent hours, and minutes all too long,
And a deal of sad reflection, and wailing instead of song?
There's Sarah, and Eliza, and Emeline so fair,
And Harriet, and Susan, and she with curling hair!
Thine eyes are sadly blinded, but yet thou mayest see
Six true, and comely maidens sitting upon the tree;
Approach that tree with caution, then up it boldly climb,
And seize the one thou lovest, nor care for space, or time!
Then bear her to the greenwood, and build for her a bower,
And give her what she asketh, jewel, or bird, or flower—
And bring the fife, and trumpet, and beat upon the drum—
And bid the world Goodmorrow, and go to glory home!


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Poetic Form
Metre 011101110101 01010101110 101111101100101 1100101000100111 1111010011111 11110101101111 010101010101 1001101010101 0111011011101 1111010111101 0111010011101 1101111101001 01110100101101 0111010111101 0111010010111 001011010111 011101100101 011111011101 1101010111101 111110010111 0111010110101 11011101101 11010100100111 01111010111 1100101010101 11011100111 110101010101 11110101111111 1101010010111 001110100100111 110001001011 0100010011101 111101011111 1101010100101 0111110111101 010111111111 1101010110010 0101111011110 0101010010101 01011011101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 2,214
Words 416
Sentences 13
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 38
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 867
Words per stanza (avg) 207
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

2:05 min read
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Emily Dickinson

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