Analysis of Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640
Know Celia, since thou art so proud,
'Twas I that gave thee thy renown;
Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd
Of common beauties, liv'd unknown,
Had not my verse exhal'd thy name,
And with it imp'd the wings of fame.
That killing power is none of thine,
I gave it to thy voice, and eyes;
Thy sweets, thy graces, all are mine;
Thou art my star, shin'st in my skies;
Then dart not from thy borrow'd sphere
Lightning on him that fix'd thee there.
Tempt me with such affrights no more,
Lest what I made, I uncreate;
Let fools thy mystic forms adore,
I'll know thee in thy mortal state;
Wise poets that wrapp'd Truth in tales,
Knew her themselves, through all her veils.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11111101 11000101 11010101 11110111 01110111 110101111 11111101 11110111 111111011 1111111 10111111 1111111 111111 11110101 11101101 11011101 10011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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