Analysis of Delia XXXIII: When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pa

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



XXXIII
    When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass,
   And thou with careful brow sitting alone
   Received hast this message from thy glass,
   That tells thee truth and says that all is gone:
   Fresh shalt thou see in me the wounds thou madest,
   Though spent thy flame, in me the heat remaining;
   I that have lov'd thee thus before thou fadest,
   My faith shall wax when thou art in thy waning.
   The world shall find this miracle in me,
  That fire can burn when all the matter's spent;
  Then what my faith hath been thyself shall see,
  And that thou wast unkind thou mayst repent.
  Thou mayst repent that thou hast scorn'd my tears,
  When winter snows upon thy golden hairs.


Scheme AABACDEDEFDADAA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (27%)
Metre 1 11111101101 0111011001 011110111 1111011111 1111010111 11110101010 1111110111 11111110110 0111110001 11011110101 111111111 0111011101 1101111111 1101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 691
Words 124
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 519
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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