Analysis of Epithalamium: A Marriage Poem

Major Henry Livingston Jr. 1748 (Poughkeepsie, Province of New York) – 1828 (Poughkeepsie, New York)



'Twas summer, when softly the breezes were blowing,
And Hudson majestic so sweetly was flowing,
The groves rang with music & accents of pleasure
And nature in rapture beat time to the measure,
When Helen and Jonas, so true and so loving,
Along the green lawn were seen arm in arm moving,
Sweet daffodils, violets and roses spontaneous
Wherever they wandered sprang up instantaneous.
The ascent the lovers at length were seen climbing
Whose summit is grac'd by the temple of Hymen:
The genius presiding no sooner perceived them
But, spreading his pinions, he flew to receive them;
With kindest of greetings pronounced them well come
While hollidays clangor rang loud to the welkin.


Scheme AABBAACCADEEFD
Poetic Form
Metre 110110010010 010010110110 01111010110 010010111010 110010110110 010110110110 1101000100100 010110110100 001010110110 110111010110 010010110011 11011111011 11011001111 11111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 677
Words 116
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 550
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Major Henry Livingston Jr.

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