Analysis of Song: Perswasions to enjoy
Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640
If the quick spirits in your eye
Now languish and anon must die;
If every sweet and every grace
Must fly from that forsaken face;
Then, Celia, let us reap our joys
Ere Time such goodly fruit destroys.
Or if that golden fleece must grow
For ever free from agèd snow;
If those bright suns must know no shade,
Nor your fresh beauties ever fade;
Then fear not, Celia, to bestow
What, still being gather'd, still must grow.
Thus either Time his sickle brings
In vain, or else in vain his wings.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEDD FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110011 1100111 1100101001 11110101 110111101 11110101 11110111 11011111 11111111 11110101 11110101 111010111 11011101 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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