Analysis of Samela

Robert Greene 1558 (Tombland) – 1592 (London)



LIKE to Diana in her summer weed,
   Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye,
   Goes fair Samela.
Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed
   When wash'd by Arethusa faint they lie,
   Is fair Samela.
As fair Aurora in her morning grey,
   Deck'd with the ruddy glister of her love
   Is fair Samela;
Like lovely Thetis on a calmed day
   Whenas her brightness Neptune's fancy move,
   Shines fair Samela.

Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassy streams,
   Her teeth are pearl, the breasts are ivory
   Of fair Samela;
Her cheeks like rose and lily yield forth gleams;
   Her brows bright arches framed of ebony.
   Thus fair Samela
Passeth fair Venus in her bravest hue,
   And Juno in the show of majesty
   (For she 's Samela!),
Pallas in wit,--all three, if you well view,
   For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity,
   Yield to Samela.


Scheme abcabCdxCdxc efcefcgfcgfc
Poetic Form
Metre 1101000101 1101011101 111 101101111 1111111 111 1101000101 110101101 111 110101011 10101101 111 0101011101 0111011100 111 0111010111 0111011100 111 111000101 0100011100 1111 1001111111 110101100 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 856
Words 147
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 12
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 313
Words per stanza (avg) 72
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Greene

Robert Greene was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. more…

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