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
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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John Skelton

John Skelton (1460-1529), also known as John Shelton, possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet. more…

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