Analysis of Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
John Dryden 1631 (Aldwincle) – 1631 (London)
Fair Iris I love and hourly I die,
But not for a lip nor a languishing eye:
She's fickle and false, and there I agree;
For I am as false and as fickle as she:
We neither believe what either can say;
And, neither believing, we neither betray.
'Tis civil to swear and say things, of course;
We mean not the taking for better or worse.
When present we love, when absent agree;
I think not of Iris, nor Iris of me:
The legend of love no couple can find
So easy to part, or so equally join'd.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101011 11101101001 1100101101 11111011011 1100111011 01001011001 1101101111 11101011011 1101111001 11111011011 0101111011 11011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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