Analysis of Quinti Catuli.

Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657



Constiteram exorientem Auroram forte salutans,
  Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur.
Pace mihi liceat, coelestes, dicere vestra.
  Mortalis visu pulchrior esse deo.
Blanditur puero satyrus vultuque manuque;
  Nolenti similis retrahit ora puer:
Quem non commoveat, quamvis de marmore? fundit
  Pene preces satyrus, pene puer lachrymas.

As once I bad good morning to the day,
O' th' sudden Roscius breaks in a bright ray:
Gods with your favour, I've presum'd to see
A mortal fairer then a deitie.
With looks and hands a satyre courts the boy,
Who draws back his unwilling cheek as coy.
Although of marble hewn, whom move not they?
The boy ev'n seems to weep, the satyre, pray.


Scheme ABBCDBCA EBACXDEB
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 110111 111111 111110 11111 111101 1111111 111111 1111110101 11110110011 111110111 01010101 110101101 1111010111 111011111 0111111011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 710
Words 116
Sentences 12
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 265
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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