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
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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Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion sometimes Campian was an English composer poet and physician Campion was first published as a poet in 1591 with five of his works appearing in an edition of Sir Philip Sidneys Astrophel and Stella more…

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