Analysis of A Short Hymn Upon The Birth Of Prince Charles
Sir Henry Wotton 1568 (parish) – 1639 (chapel of Eton College)
You that on Stars do look,
Arrest not there your sight,
Though Natures fairest Book,
And signed with propitious light;
Our Blessing now is more Divine,
Then Planets that at Noon did shine.
To thee alone be praise,
From whom our Joy descends,
Thou Chearer of our Days,
Of Causes first, and last of Ends;
To thee this May we sing, by whom
Our Roses from the Lilies bloom.
Upon this Royal Flower,
Sprung from the chastest Bed,
Thy glorious sweetness shower,
And first let Myrtles Crown his Head;
Then Palms and Lawrels wreath'd between;
But let the Cypress late be seen.
And so succeeding men,
When they the fulness see
Of this our Joy, shall then
In consort joyn as well as we,
To celebrate his Praise above,
That spreads our Land with fruits of Love.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 011111 110101 0110101 101011101 11011111 110111 1110101 111101 11010111 11111111 101010101 0111010 11011 11001010 01110111 1101101 11010111 010101 11011 1110111 00111111 1101101 111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 736 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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