Analysis of To Coelia
Charles Cotton 1630 (Alstonefield) – 1687
WHEN, Coelia, must my old day set,
And my young morning rise
In beams of joy so bright as yet
Ne'er bless'd a lover's eyes?
My state is more advanced than when
I first attempted thee:
I sued to be a servant then,
But now to be made free.
I've served my time faithful and true,
Expecting to be placed
In happy freedom, as my due,
To all the joys thou hast:
Ill husbandry in love is such
A scandal to love's power,
We ought not to misspend so much
As one poor short-lived hour.
Yet think not, sweet! I'm weary grown,
That I pretend such haste;
Since none to surfeit e'er was known
Before he had a taste:
My infant love could humbly wait
When, young, it scarce knew how
To plead; but grown to man's estate,
He is impatient now.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEXGHGH IFIFJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 011101 01111111 110101 11110111 110101 11110101 111111 11111001 010111 01010111 110111 11000111 0101110 11110111 1111110 11111101 110111 111101011 011101 11011101 111111 11111101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 768 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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