Analysis of Tell Me No More How Fair She Is
Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)
TELL me no more how fair she is,
I have no minde to hear
The story of that distant bliss
I never shall come near:
By sad experience I have found
That her perfection is my wound.
And tell me not how fond I am
To tempt a daring Fate,
From whence no triumph ever came,
But to repent too late:
There is some hope ere long I may
In silence dote my self away.
I ask no pity (Love) from thee,
Nor will thy justice blame,
So that thou wilt not envy me
The glory of my flame:
Which crowns my heart when ere it dyes,
In that it falls her sacrifice.
Scheme | XXXXAA XBCBDD ECECXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 111111 01011101 110111 110100111 10010111 01111111 110101 11110101 110111 11111111 01011101 11110111 111101 11111101 010111 11111111 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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