Analysis of The Golden Gift that Nature Did Thee Give
Henry Howard 1517 – 1547
The golden gift that Nature did thee give
To fasten friends and feed them at thy will
With form and favour, taught me to believe
How thou art made to show her greatest skill,
Whose hidden virtues are not so unknown
But lively dooms might gather at the first:
Where beauty so her perfect seed hath sown
Of other graces follow needs there must.
Now certes, lady, since all this is true,
That from above thy gifts are thus elect,
Do not deface them then with fancies new,
Nor change of minds let not thy mind infect,
But mercy him, thy friend, that doth thee serve,
Who seeks alway thine honour to preserve.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110111 1101011111 110111101 1111110101 1101011101 1101110101 1101001111 1101010111 111011111 1101111101 1101111101 1111111101 1101111111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 478 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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