Analysis of The Godlike
Charles Lamb 1775 (Inner Temple, London) – 1834 (Edmonton, London)
In one great man we view with odds
A parallel to all the gods.
Great Jove, that shook heaven with his brow,
Could never match his princely bow.
In him a Bacchus we behold:
Like Bacchus, too, he ne'er grows old.
Like Phoebus next, a flaming lover;
And then he's Mercury-all over.
A Vulcan, for domestic strife,
He lamely lives without his wife.
And sure-unless our wits be dull-
Minerva-like, when moon was full,
He issued from paternal skull.
R. et R.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFXF X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111111 0101101 111110111 11011101 01010101 11011111 110101010 011100110 01010101 11010111 010110111 01011111 11010101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 447 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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