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
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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Thomas Carew

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

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