Analysis of Inscription In A Garden
George Gascoigne 1535 (Cardington) – 1577
IF any flower that here is grown
Or any herb may ease your pain,
Take and account it as your own,
But recompense the like again;
For some and some is honest play,
And so my wife taught me to say.
If here to walk you take delight,
Why, come and welcome, when you will;
If I bid you sup here this night,
Bid me another time, and still
Think some and some is honest play,
For so my wife taught me to say.
Thus if you sup or dine with me,
If you walk here or sit at ease,
If you desire the thing you see,
And have the same your mind to please,
Think some and some is honest play,
And so my wife taught me to say.
Scheme | axaxbB cdcdBb efefBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 11011111 10011111 1100101 11011101 01111111 11111101 11010111 11111111 11010101 11011101 11111111 11111111 11111111 110100111 01011111 11011101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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