Analysis of To Mistress Isabell Pennell
John Skelton 1460 (Norfolk) – 1529 (London)
By Saint Mary, my lady,
Your mammy and your dady
Brought forth a goodly baby !
My maiden Isabel,
Reflaring rosabell,
The flagrant camamell,
The ruddy rosary,
The sovereign rosemary,
The pretty strawberry,
The columbine, the nepte,
The jeloffer well set,
The proper violet ;
Ennewëd your colowre
Is like the daisy flower
After the April shower ;
Star of the morrow gray,
The blossom on the spray,
The freshest flower of May :
Maidenly demure,
Of womanhood the lure ;
Wherefore I make you sure
It were an heavenly health,
It were and endless wealth,
A life for God himself,
To hear this nightingale
Among the birdës smale
Warbeling in the vale,—
Dug, dug, jug, jug,
Good year and good luck,
With chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck !
Scheme | AAABBBAAAACDEEEEEFEEEGGHIIIJKK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (37%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110110 110110 1101010 11010 11 0101 010100 01010 01010 01001 0111 010100 1111 1101010 1001010 110101 010101 0101011 101 11001 11111 1011001 100101 011101 111100 010111 1001 1111 11011 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 560 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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