Analysis of By All Love's Soft, Yet Mighty Powers
John Wilmot 1647 (Ditchley, Oxfordshire) – 1680 (Woodstock, Oxfordshire)
By all love's soft, yet mighty powers,
It is a thing unfit,
That men should fuck in time of flowers,
Or when the smock's beshit.
Fair nasty nymph, be clean and kind,
And all my joys restore;
By using paper still behind,
And sponges for before.
My spotless flames can ne'er decay,
If after every close,
My smoking prick escape the fray,
Without a bloody nose.
If thou would have me true, be wise,
And take to cleanly sinning,
None but fresh lovers' pricks can rise,
At Phyllis in foul linen.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX FXFX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 111111010 110101 111101110 11011 11011101 011101 11010101 010101 11011101 1101001 11010101 010101 11111111 0111010 11110111 1100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 484 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 06, 2023
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