Analysis of Mutability
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
When I bethink me on that speech whilere,
Of Mutability, and well it weigh:
Me seems,that though she all unworthy were
Of the Heav'ns Rule; yet very sooth to say,
In all things else she bears the greatest sway.
Which makes me loathe this state of life so tickle,
And love of things so vain to cast away;
Whose flow'ring pride, so fading and so fickle,
Short Time shall soon cut down with his consuming sickle.
Then gin I think on that which Nature said.
Of that same time when no more Change shall be,
But steadfast rest of all things firmly stayed
Upon the pillars of Eternity,
That is contrare to Mutability:
For, all that moveth, doth in Change delight:
But thence-forth all shall rest eternally
With Him that is the God of Sabbaoth hight:
O that great Sabbaoth God, grant me that Sabbaoth's sight.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 110111 111110100 1011110111 0111110101 11111111110 0111111101 11111100110 1111111101010 1111111101 1111111111 111111101 0101010100 11111 111110101 1111110100 111101111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 792 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 315 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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