Analysis of Every planet above, and every star
Gaspara Stampa 1523 (Padua) – 1554 (Venice)
Every planet above, and every star,
Gave my lord their powers at his birth:
Each one gave him of their special worth,
To make a single perfect mortal here.
Saturn gave him depths of understanding,
Jupiter for fine actions gave desire,
Mars a greater skill than most in warfare,
Phoebus, elegance and wit in speaking.
Venus beauty too, and gentleness,
Mercury eloquence, but then the moon
Made him too cold for me, in iciness.
Each of these graces, each rare boon,
Make me burn for his fierce brightness,
And yet he freezes, through that one alone.
Scheme | XAAXBXXB CDCDCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100100101001 111110111 111111101 1101001101 101111010 10011101010 101011101 1010001010 101010100 1001001101 11111101 11110111 11111110 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 542 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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