Analysis of On His Lady Denys
William Strode 1602 – 1645
Denys hath merited no slender praise,
In that She well supplied the Formers daies.
Conceive how Good she was, whose very worst
Unto her Knight was This, that She dyed First.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011001101 011101011 0111111101 1001111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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