Analysis of My Midnight Meditation
Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)
Ill busi'd man! why should'st thou take such care
To lengthen out thy life's short calendar?
When ev'ry spectacle thou lookst upon
Presents and acts thy execution.
Each drooping season and each flower doth cry,
'Fool! as I fade and wither, thou must die.
'The beating of thy pulse (when thou art well)
Is just the tolling of thy Passing Bell:
Night is thy Hearse, whose sable Canopy
Covers alike deceased day and thee.
And all those weeping dews which nightly fall,
Are but the tears shed for thy funeral.'
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Metre | 11011111111 1101111100 111001101 10011010 11010011011 1111010111 0101111111 1101011101 1111110100 100101101 0111011101 1101111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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