Analysis of Lucasta, Taking The Waters At Tunbridge.



I.
Yee happy floods! that now must passe
  The sacred conduicts of her wombe,
Smooth and transparent as your face,
  When you are deafe, and windes are dumbe.

II.
Be proud! and if your waters be
  Foul'd with a counterfeyted teare,
Or some false sigh hath stained yee,
  Haste, and be purified there.

III.
And when her rosie gates y'have trac'd,
  Continue yet some Orient wet,
'Till, turn'd into a gemme, y'are plac'd
  Like diamonds with rubies set.

IV.
Yee drops, that dew th' Arabian bowers,
  Tell me, did you e're smell or view
On any leafe of all your flowers
  Soe sweet a sent, so rich a hiew?

V.
But as through th' Organs of her breath
  You trickle wantonly, beware:
Ambitious Seas in their just death
  As well as Lovers, must have share.

VI.
And see! you boyle as well as I;
  You, that to coole her did aspire,
Now troubled and neglected lye,
  Nor can your selves quench your owne fire.

VII.
Yet still be happy in the thought,
  That in so small a time as this,
Through all the Heavens you were brought
  Of Vertue, Honour, Love and Blisse.


Scheme ABCXC ADXDE AFGFG HIHIX DJEJE AAXAX HKXKB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1 11011111 0101101 10010111 11110111 1 11011101 11011 1111111 101101 1 010101111 01011101 110101111 1101101 1 111111010010 111111111 110111110 11011101 1 1111110101 11010001 01010111 11110111 1 01111111 11110101 11000101 111111110 1 11110001 10110111 11010101 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,149
Words 195
Sentences 18
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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