Analysis of Phillis 1

Thomas Lodge 1558 (London) – 1625 (Early autumn)



MY Phillis hath the morning sun
   At first to look upon her;
And Phillis hath morn-waking birds
   Her risings still to honour.
My Phillis hath prime-feather'd flowers,
   That smile when she treads on them;
And Phillis hath a gallant flock,
   That leaps since she doth own them.
But Phillis hath too hard a heart,
   Alas that she should have it!
It yields no mercy to desert,
   Nor grace to those that crave it.


Scheme ABCBDEFEGHIH
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 1111010 01011101 01111 110111010 1111111 01010101 1111111 11011101 0111111 11110110 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 424
Words 75
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 313
Words per stanza (avg) 73
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Lodge

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