Analysis of On The Death Of Mrs. Mary Neudham
William Strode 1602 – 1645
As sinn makes gross the soule and thickens it
To fleshy dulness, so the spotless white
Of virgin pureness made thy flesh as cleere
As others soules: thou couldst not tarry heere
All soule in both parts: and what could it bee
The Resurrection could bestow on thee,
Allready glorious? thine Innocence
(Thy better shroude) sent thee as pure from hence
As saints shall rise: but hee whose bounty may
Enlighten the greate sunn with double day,
And make it more outshine itselfe than now
It can the moone, shall crowne thy varnish'd brow
With light above that sunn: when thou shalt bee
No lower in thy place than Majesty:
Crown'd with a Virgin's wreath, outshining there
The Saints as much as thou did'st mortalls heere.
Bee this thy hope; and whilst thy ashes ly
Asleepe in death, dreame of Eternity.
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Metre | 1111010101 110110101 110111111 1101111101 1101101111 001010111 11001100 1101111111 1111111101 0100111101 01111111 1101111101 1101111111 1100111100 110101101 0111111111 1111011101 101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 634 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 141 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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