Analysis of Song: Go, lovely rose!

Edmund Waller 1606 (Coleshill) – 1687



Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that's young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts, where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.

Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired;
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.

Then die! that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!


Scheme ABABB CDCDD XXXEE BFBFF
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Tetractys  (30%)
Metre 1101 10110101 1111 11010011 11011111 1011 01110101 1111 01011101 11111 1101 11010101 1011 100111010 011111010 1111 01011111 1101 11011111 11110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 554
Words 113
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679. more…

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