Analysis of Song - Stay, Phoebus, stay!
Edmund Waller 1606 (Coleshill) – 1687
Stay, Phoebus, stay!
The world to which you fly so fast,
Conveying day
From us to them, can pay your haste
With no such object, not salute your rise
With no such wonder, as De Mornay's eyes.
Well does this prove
The error of those antique books,
Which made you move
About the world; her charming looks
Would fix your beams, and make it ever day,
Did not the rolling earth snatch her away.
| Scheme | AXAXBB CDCDAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 01111111 0101 11111111 1111010111 111101111 1111 01011011 1111 01010101 1111011101 1101011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 387 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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