Analysis of Love
Nicholas Breton 1558 (England) – 1626
Foolish love is only folly;
Wanton love is too unholy;
Greedy love is covetous;
Idle love is frivolous;
But the gracious love is it
That doth prove the work of it.
Beauty but deceives the eye;
Flattery leads the ear awry;
Wealth doth but enchant the wit;
Want, the overthrow of it;
While in Wisdom's worthy grace,
Virtue sees the sweetest face.
There hath Love found out his life,
Peace without all thought of strife;
Kindness in Discretion's care;
Truth, that clearly doth declare
Faith doth in true fancy prove,
Lust the excrements of Love.
Then in faith may fancy see
How my love may constru'd be;
How it grows and what it seeks;
How it lives and what it likes;
So in highest grace regard it,
Or in lowest scorn discard it.
Scheme | AABBCC DDCCBB EEFFXX AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111010 10111010 10111 1011100 1010111 1110111 101101 10010101 1110101 101011 101101 1010101 1111111 1011111 10011 1110101 1101101 10111 1011101 1111011 1110111 1110111 10101011 10101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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