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
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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John Donne

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