Analysis of Lines
ON THE CELEBRATED PICTURE BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, CALLED THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS
While young John runs to greet
The greater Infant's feet,
The Mother standing by, with trembling passion
Of devout admiration,
Beholds the engaging mystic play, and pretty adoration;
Nor knows as yet the full event
Of those so low beginnings,
From whence we date our winnings,
But wonders at the intent
Of those new rites, and what that strange child-worship meant.
But at her side
An angel doth abide,
With such a perfect joy
As no dim doubts alloy,
An intuition,
A glory, an amenity,
Passing the dark condition
Of blind humanity,
As if he surely knew
All the blest wonders should ensue,
Or he had lately left the upper sphere,
And had read all the sovran schemes and divine riddles there.
Scheme | X AABBBCDDCCEEFFBGBGHHXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001010101101010101 111111 010101 010101110010 101010 10010101010010 11110101 1111010 11111010 1101001 111101111101 1101 110101 110011 11111 1010 01010100 1001010 110100 111101 10110101 1111010101 01110101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 22 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 307 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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