Analysis of Poem 18
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
NOw welcome night, thou night so long expected,
that long daies labour doest at last defray,
And all my cares, which cruell loue collected,
Hast sumd in one, and cancelled for aye:
Spread thy broad wing ouer my loue and me,
that no man may vs see,
And in thy sable mantle vs enwrap,
>From feare of perrill and foule horror free.
Let no false treason seeke vs to entrap,
Nor any dread disquiet once annoy
the safety of our ioy:
But let the night be calme and quietsome,
Without tempestuous storms or sad afray:
Lyke as when Ioue with fayre Alcmena lay,
When he begot the great Tirynthian groome:
Or lyke as when he with thy selfe did lie,
And begot Maiesty.
And let the mayds and yongmen cease to sing:
Ne let the woods them answer, nor theyr eccho ring.
Scheme | ABACDDEDEFGDBBHCAII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111010 111111101 0111111010 110101011 111111101 1111101 0011010101 111101101 11110110101 1101010101 0101101 11011101 011001111 11111111 11010111 1111111111 0011 010101111 11011101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 589 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 142 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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