Analysis of Not Iris in Her Pride
George Peele 1556 (London) – 1596 (London)
Not Iris in her pride and bravery
Adorns her arch with such variety;
Nor doth the Milk-white Way in frosty night
Appear so fair and beautiful in sight,
As do these fields and groves and sweetest bowers
Bestrewed and decked with parti-coloured flowers.
Along the bubbling brooks and silver glide,
That at the bottom doth in silence slide,
The water-flowers and lilies on the banks
Like blazing comets burgeon all in ranks;
Under the hawthorn and the poplar tree,
Where sacred Phoebe may delight to be,
The primrose and the purple hyacinth,
The dainty violet and the wholesome minth,
The double-daisy and the cowslip (Queen)
Of summer flowers) do over-peer the green;
And round about the valley as ye pass,
Ye may not see, for peeping flowers, the grass.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEAAFFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100010100 0101110100 1101110101 0111010001 11110101010 1011101010 01010010101 1101010101 01010010101 1101010101 100100101 1101010111 01001010 01010000101 0101000101 11010110101 0101010111 11111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 601 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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