Analysis of When Ragyng Loue With Extreme Payne
Henry Howard 1517 – 1547
When ragyng loue with extreme payne
Most cruelly distrains my hart:
When that my teares, as floudes of rayne,
Beare witnes of my wofull smart:
When sighes haue wasted so my breath,
That I lye at the poynte of death:
I call to minde the nauye greate,
That the Grekes brought to Troye towne:
And how the boysteous windes did beate
Their shyps, and rente their sayles adowne,
Till Agamemnons daughters bloode
Appeasde the goddes, that them withstode.
And how that in those ten yeres warre,
Full many a bloudye dede was done,
And many a lord, that came full farre,
There caught his bane (alas) to sone:
And many a good knight ouerronne,
Before the Grekes had Helene wonne.
Then thinke I thus: sithe suche repayre,
So longe time warre of valiant men,
Was all to winne a ladye fayre:
Shall I not learne to suffer then,
And thinke my life well spent to be,
Seruyng a worthier wight than she?
Therfore I neuer will repent,
But paynes contented stil endure.
For like as when, rough winter spent,
The pleasant spring straight draweth in vre:
So after ragyng stormes of care
Joyful at length may be my fare.
Scheme | ABABCC BXBABB DXDAAA DEDEFF GDGDDD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111011 110111 11111111 111111 11110111 11110111 1111011 1011111 0101111 1101111 11101 101111 01101111 11001111 010011111 11110111 0100111 01011011 1111111 11111101 1111011 11111101 01111111 10100111 1110101 11010101 11111101 01011101 1101111 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,104 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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