Analysis of The Computation
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
For the first twenty years since yesterday
I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away;
For forty more I fed on favors past,
And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last.
Tears drowned one hundred, and sighs blew out two,
A thousand, I did neither think nor do,
Or not divide, all being one thought of you,
Or in a thousand more forgot that too.
Yet call not this long life, but think that I
Am, by being dead, immortal. Can ghosts die?
Scheme | AABBCCCCDD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101101110 1101111101 1101111101 01011111111 1111001111 0101110111 11011101111 1001010111 1111111111 11101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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