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
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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George Peele

George Peele was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Titus Andronicus. more…

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