Analysis of To His Mistresse
William Strode 1602 – 1645
In your sterne beauty I can see
Whatere in Aetna wonders bee;
If coales out of the topp doe flye
Hott flames doe gush out of your eye;
If frost lye on the ground belowe
Your breast is white and cold as snowe:
The sparkes that sett my hart on fire
Refuse to melt your owne desire:
The frost that byndes your chilly breast
With double fire hath mee opprest:
Both heate and cold a league have made,
And leaving you they mee invade:
The hearth its proper flame withstands
When ice itselfe heates others hands.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 1010101 11110111 11111111 1111011 11110111 011111110 011111010 01111101 11010111 11010111 01011101 01110101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 402 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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