Analysis of The Things that Cause a Quiet Life
Henry Howard 1517 – 1547
My friend, the things that do attain
The happy life be these, I find:
The riches left, not got with pain,
The fruitful ground; the quiet mind;
The equal friend; no grudge, no strife;
No charge of rule nor governance;
Without disease the healthy life;
The household of continuance;
The mean diet, no dainty fare;
True wisdom joined with simpleness;
The night discharged of all care,
Where wine the wit may not oppress;
The faithful wife, without debate;
Such sleeps as may beguile the night:
Content thyself with thine estate,
Neither wish death, nor fear his might.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EDEX FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 01011111 01011111 01010101 01011111 11111100 01010101 0110100 01101101 110111 0101111 11011101 01010101 11110101 1011101 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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