Analysis of Secrecy Protested.

Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640



FEAR not, dear love, that I'll reveal
Those hours of pleasure we two steal ;
No eye shall see, nor yet the sun
Descry, what thou and I have done.
No ear shall hear our love, but we
Silent as the night will be ;
The god of love himself (whose dart
Did first wound mine and then thy heart),
Shall never know that we can tell
What sweets in stol'n embraces dwell.
This only means may find it out ;
If, when I die, physicians doubt
What caused my death, and there to view
Of all their judgements which was true,
Rip up my heart, oh ! then, I fear,
The world will see thy picture there.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHI
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 110110111 11111101 1110111 111110111 1010111 01110111 11110111 11011111 110110101 11011111 11110101 11110111 11110111 11111111 01111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 587
Words 116
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 440
Words per stanza (avg) 118
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Thomas Carew

Thomas Carew pronounced Carey was an English poet Carews poems are sensuous lyrics more…

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