Analysis of Good Morrow
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
I wonder, by my truth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved; were we not weaned till then,
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den?
'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
And now good morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room, an everywhere.
Let sead discoveries to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess our world; each hath one and is one.
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp North, without declining West?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one; or thou and I
Love so alike that none do slacken, none can die.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 1111011111 11110101 11010010101 1111110101 1101010111 1101001110111 01110110101 1111010111 1111110101 011101110 11010011111 1111011111 1101101111011 1101110101 0111100101 11111101 0111010101 101111100 11011111101 110111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 911 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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