Analysis of Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Thomas Campion 1567 – 1620
Now winter nights enlarge
This number of their hours;
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o'erflow with wine,
Let well-tuned words amaze
With harmony divine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall wait on honey love
While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
Sleep's leaden spells remove.
This time doth well dispense
With lovers' long discourse;
Much speech hath some defense,
Though beauty no remorse.
All do not all things well:
Some measures comely tread,
Some knotted riddles tell,
Some poems smoothly read.
The summer hath his joys,
And winter his delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys
They shorten tedious nights.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEXEX FGFGHIHIJEJE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 1101110 011101 0101010 110101 01111 111101 110001 11011 111101 1101010101 110101 111101 110110 111101 110101 111111 110101 110101 110101 010111 010101 1101110111 1101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 693 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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