Analysis of Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace
Henry Howard 1517 – 1547
Alas! so all things now do hold their peace,
Heaven and earth disturbed in nothing.
The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease,
The night{:e}s chare the stars about doth bring.
Calm is the sea, the waves work less and less:
So am not I, whom love, alas, doth wring,
Bringing before my face the great increase
Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing
In joy and woe, as in a doubtful ease.
For my sweet thoughts sometime do pleasure bring,
But by and by the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.
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Metre | 0111111111 100101010 0101011111 01111010111 1101011101 1111110111 1001110101 1101011101 0101100101 111111101 1101011101 1101110011 1111111101 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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