Analysis of Delia VI: Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair
Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619
VI
Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair:
Her brow shades frowns although her eyes are sunny,
Her smiles are lightning though her pride despair,
And her disdains are gall, her favours honey;
A modest maid, deck'd with a blush of honour,
Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love,
The wonder of all eyes that look upon her:
Sacred on earth, design'd a saint above.
Chastity and beauty, which were deadly foes,
Live reconciled friends within her brow;
And had she pity to conjoin with those,
Then who had heard the plaints I utter now?
For had she not been fair and thus unkind,
My muse had slept, and none had known my mind.
Scheme | ABCBCBDEDFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1 1111010111 0111101110 0111010101 0001110110 0101110111 1111111101 01011111010 1011010101 10001010101 11010101 011101111 1111011101 1111110101 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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