Analysis of Silvia
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
WHO is Silvia? What is she?
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admired be.
Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness:
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness;
And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Then to Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring.
Scheme | ABABA CDCDC EEEEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100111 11101010 1010111 01011110 1110101 1111111 1101110 1110101 1111110 01010101 11100111 11001010 1011101 0101110 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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