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
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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