Analysis of Amyntor From Beyond The Sea To Alexis. A Dialogue



Amyntor.
         Alexis! ah Alexis! can it be,
             Though so much wet and drie
                 Doth drowne our eye,
           Thou keep'st thy winged voice from me?

Alexis.
         Amyntor, a profounder sea, I feare,
             Hath swallow'd me, where now
                 My armes do row,
           I floate i'th' ocean of a teare.

Lucasta weepes, lest I look back and tread
             Your Watry land againe.
Amyn.            I'd through the raine;
           Such showrs are quickly over-spread.

Conceive how joy, after this short divorce,
             Will circle her with beames,
                 When, like your streames,
           You shall rowle back with kinder force,

And call the helping winds to vent your thought.
Alex.        Amyntor! Chloris! where
                 Or in what sphere
           Say, may that glorious fair be sought?

Amyn.    She's now the center of these armes e're blest,
             Whence may she never move,
                 Till Time and Love
           Haste to their everlasting rest.

Alex.    Ah subtile swaine! doth not my flame rise high
             As yours, and burne as hot?
                 Am not I shot
           With the selfe same artillery?

And can I breath without her air?--Amyn.
                   Why, then,
             From thy tempestuous earth,
                 Where blood and dearth
           Raigne 'stead of kings, agen

Wafte thy selfe over, and lest storms from far
             Arise, bring in our sight
                 The seas delight,
           Lucasta, that bright northerne star.

Alex.    But as we cut the rugged deepe, I feare
             The green god stops his fell
                 Chariot of shell,
           And smooths the maine to ravish her.

Amyn.    Oh no, the prince of waters' fires are done;
             He as his empire's old,
                 And rivers, cold;
           His queen now runs abed to th' sun;

But all his treasure he shall ope' that day:
             Tritons shall sound: his fleete
                 In silver meete,
           And to her their rich offrings pay.

Alex.    We flye, Amyntor, not amaz'd how sent
             By water, earth, or aire:
                 Or if with her
                 By fire: ev'n there
           I move in mine owne element.


Scheme ABACB DAEAA FEXF GDDG HAAH IXXI CJJA EXKKE ALLA AMMA NOON PFFP XAAAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1 0101010111 111101 11101 11111111 010 101111 110111 1111 1111110101 11111101 11011 11101 11110101 0111101101 110011 1111 11111101 0101011111 101101 1011 111100111 111010111111 111101 1101 1110101 10111111111 110111 1111 10110100 011101011 11 111001 1101 11111 1111001111 0110101 0101 11111 101111010111 011111 10011 0101110 111011101011 1111001 0101 1111011111 1111011111 11111 0101 0101111 1011110111 110111 1110 110111 11011100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,321
Words 315
Sentences 30
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 56
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:37 min read
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