Analysis of To Ellinda, That Lately I Have Not Written
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
I.
If in me anger, or disdaine
In you, or both, made me refraine
From th' noble intercourse of verse,
That only vertuous thoughts rehearse;
Then, chaste Ellinda, might you feare
The sacred vowes that I did sweare.
II.
But if alone some pious thought
Me to an inward sadnesse brought,
Thinking to breath your soule too welle,
My tongue was charmed with that spell;
And left it (since there was no roome
To voyce your worth enough) strooke dumbe.
III.
So then this silence doth reveal
No thought of negligence, but zeal:
For, as in adoration,
This is love's true devotion;
Children and fools the words repeat,
But anch'rites pray in tears and sweat.
Scheme | ABBCCDD AEEFFGG AHHBBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1011011 0111111 111101011 1101101 111111 01011111 1 11011101 1111011 10111111 1111111 01111111 11110111 1 11110101 11110011 110010 1111010 10010101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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