Analysis of Why should a foolish marriage vow
John Dryden 1631 (Aldwincle) – 1631 (London)
Why should a foolish marriage vow,
Which long ago was made,
Oblige us to each other now
When passion is decay'd?
We lov'd, and we lov'd, as long as we could,
Till our love was lov'd out in us both:
But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled:
'Twas pleasure first made it an oath.
If I have pleasures for a friend,
And farther love in store,
What wrong has he whose joys did end,
And who could give no more?
'Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me,
Or that I should bar him of another:
For all we can gain is to give our selves pain,
When neither can hinder the other.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 110111 01111101 110101 1101111111 1101111011 1101011101011 11011111 11110101 010101 11111111 011111 101011111011 1111111010 111111111011 110110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 221 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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