Analysis of Poem 15
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
RIng ye the bels, ye yong men of the towne,
And leaue your wonted labors for this day:
This day is holy; doe ye write it dovvne,
that ye for euer it remember may.
This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight,
With Barnaby the bright,
>From whence declining daily by degrees,
He somewhat loseth of his heat and light,
When once the Crab behind his back he sees.
But for this time it ill ordained was,
To chose the longest day in all the yeare,
And shortest night, when longest fitter weare.
Yet neuer day so long, but late would passe.
Ring ye the bels, to make it weare away,
And bonefiers make all day,
And daunce about them, and about them sing:
that all the woods may answer, and your eccho ring.
Scheme | ABABCCDCDEFFBBBGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 011110111 1111011111 111110101 110110111 110001 1101010101 111111101 1101011111 111111011 1101010101 0101110101 1101111111 1101111101 01111 0101100111 11011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 539 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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