Analysis of On the Water of our Lord's Baptism
Richard Crashaw 1612 (London) – 1649 (Loreto, Marche)
Each blest drop on each blest limb,
Is wash't itself, in washing Him :
'Tis a gem while it stays here ;
While it falls hence 'tis a tear.
Scheme | AABC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 111010101 1011111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 142 |
Words | 29 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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