Analysis of Love (I)

George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)



Immortal love, authour of this great frame,
Sprung from that beautie which can never fade;
How hath man parcel’d out thy glorious name,
And thrown it on that dust which thou hast made,

While mortall love doth all the title gain!
Which siding with invention, they together
Bear all the sway, possessing heart and brain,
(Thy workmanship) and give thee share in neither.

Wit fancies beautie, beautie raiseth wit:
The world is theirs; they two play out the game,
Thou standing by: and though thy glorious name
Wrought our deliverance from th’ infernall pit,

Who sings thy praise? onely a skarf or glove
Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EAAE FF
Poetic Form
Metre 010111111 111111101 1111111001 0111111111 111110101 11010101010 1101010101 1100111010 1101111 0111111101 11010111001 110010011111 111110111 11101011111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 648
Words 115
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 16, 2023

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