Analysis of Brittle Beauty
Henry Howard 1517 – 1547
Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,
Flowering today, tomorrow apt to fail,
Tickle
treasure, abhorred of reason, [fragile]
Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail,
Costly in keeping, passed not worth two peason
, [peas]
Slipper
in sliding as is an eel's tail, [slippery]
Jewel of jeopardy that peril doth assail,
False and untrue, enticed oft to treason,
Enemy to youth: that most may I bewail.
Ah, bitter sweet: infecting as the poison,
Thou farest as fruit that with the frost is taken:
Today ready ripe, tomorrow all to-shaken
. [broken]
Scheme | ABACAABDEEABABBBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110111 1011101010 1000101111 10 10011101 10011111101 1001011111 1 10 010111111 101100110101 1001011110 1001111111 11010101010 11111101110 01101011110 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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