Analysis of Epitaph on her Son H. P.
Katherine Philips 1632 (London) – 1664
WHat on Earth deserves our trust ?
Youth and Beauty both are dust.
Long we gathering are with pain,
What one moment calls again.
Seven years childless, marriage past,
A Son, a son is born at last :
So exactly lim'd and fair.
Full of good Spirits, Meen, and Air,
As a long life promised,
Yet, in less than six weeks dead.
Too promising, too great a mind
In so small room to be confin'd :
Therefore, as fit in Heav'n to dwell,
He quickly broke the Prison shell.
So the subtle Alchimist,
Can't with Hermes Seal resist
The powerful spirit's subtler flight,
But t'will bid him long good night.
And so the Sun if it arise
Half so glorious as his Eyes,
Like this Infant, takes a shrowd,
Buried in a morning Cloud.
Scheme | AABCDDEEAFGGHHAIJJKKAL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101 1010111 11100111 1110101 10110101 01011111 1010101 11110101 101110 1011111 11001101 01111101 1110111 11010101 10101 1110101 0100101001 11111111 01011101 11100111 1110101 1000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 709 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 540 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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