Analysis of Gratiana Dancing
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
SHE beat the happy pavement--
By such a star made firmament,
Which now no more the roof envies!
But swells up high, with Atlas even,
Bearing the brighter nobler heaven,
And, in her, all the deities.
Each step trod out a Lover's thought,
And the ambitious hopes he brought
Chain'd to her brave feet with such arts,
Such sweet command and gentle awe,
As, when she ceased, we sighing saw
The floor lay paved with broken hearts.
Scheme | AABXXB CCBXBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 110111 1111011 111111010 100101010 00010100 11110101 00010111 11011111 11010101 11111101 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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