Analysis of On Mr. G. Herbert's Book, Entitled the Temple of Sacred Poe
Richard Crashaw 1612 (London) – 1649 (Loreto, Marche)
Know you fair, on what you look;
Divinest love lies in this book,
Expecting fire from your eyes,
To kindle this his sacrifice.
When your hands untie these strings,
Think you'have an angel by th' wings.
One that gladly will be nigh,
To wait upon each morning sigh.
To flutter in the balmy air
Of your well-perfumed prayer.
These white plumes of his he'll lend you,
Which every day to heaven will send you,
To take acquaintance of the sphere,
And all the smooth-fac'd kindred there.
And though Herbert's name do owe
These devotions, fairest, know
That while I lay them on the shrine
Of your white hand, they are mine.Credits and CopyrightTogether with the editors, the Department ofEnglish (University of Toronto), and the University of Toronto Press,the following individuals share copyright for the work that wentinto this edition:Screen Design (Electronic Edition): Sian Meikle (University ofToronto Library)Scanning: Sharine Leung (Centre for Computing in the Humanities)
Scheme | AABCDDEEFFGGHFIIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 111011 01010111 1101110 1110111 1111101111 1110111 11011101 11000101 111011 11111111 11001110111 11010101 01011101 0110111 11101 11111101 11111110110100001010100101000010010101100010011010111110101001011001001101011101010000100 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 780 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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