Analysis of Nature
George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)
Full of rebellion, I would die,
Or fight, or travel, or deny
That thou has aught to do with me.
O tame my heart;
It is thy highest art
To captivate strong holds to thee.
If thou shalt let this venom lurk,
And in suggestions fume and work,
My soul will turn to bubbles straight,
And thence by kind
Vanish into a wind,
Making thy workmanship deceit.
O smooth my rugged heart, and there
Engrave thy rev'rend law and fear;
Or make a new one, since the old
Is sapless grown,
And a much fitter stone
To hide my dust, than thee to hold.
Scheme | AABCCB DDXEEX XXFGGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 11110101 11111111 1111 111101 1101111 11111101 00010101 11111101 0111 100101 1011001 11110101 0111101 11011101 111 001101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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