Analysis of Beauty Clear and Fair
BEAUTY clear and fair,
Where the air
Rather like a perfume dwells;
Where the violet and the rose
Their blue veins and blush disclose,
And come to honour nothing else:
Where to live near
And planted there
Is to live, and still live new;
Where to gain a favour is
More than light, perpetual bliss--
Make me live by serving you!
Dear, again back recall
To this light,
A stranger to himself and all!
Both the wonder and the story
Shall be yours, and eke the glory;
I am your servant, and your thrall.
Scheme | AAXBBX XACXXC DXDEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 101 1010011 10100001 1110101 0111101 1111 0101 1110111 111011 11101001 1111101 10111 111 01010101 10100010 11101010 11110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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