Analysis of Rose-Cheeked Laura
Thomas Campion 1567 – 1620
Rose-cheek'd Laura, come,
Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's
Silent music, either other
Sweetly gracing.
Lovely forms do flow
From concent divinely framed;
Heav'n is music, and thy beauty's
Birth is heavenly.
These dull notes we sing
Discords need for helps to grace them;
Only beauty purely loving
Knows no discord,
But still moves delight,
Like clear springs renew'd by flowing,
Ever perfect, ever in them-
Selves eternal.
Scheme | XAXB XXAX BCBX XBCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1110111 10101010 1010 10111 110101 1110011 11100 11111 1111111 10101010 1110 11101 11101110 10011001 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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