Analysis of Phillis 01
Thomas Lodge 1558 (London) – 1625 (Early autumn)
MY Phillis hath the morning sun
At first to look upon her;
And Phillis hath morn-waking birds
Her risings still to honour.
My Phillis hath prime-feather'd flowers,
That smile when she treads on them;
And Phillis hath a gallant flock,
That leaps since she doth own them.
But Phillis hath too hard a heart,
Alas that she should have it!
It yields no mercy to desert,
Nor grace to those that crave it.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 1111010 01011101 01111 110111010 1111111 01010101 1111111 11011101 0111111 11110110 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 401 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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