Analysis of Lilies Without, Lilies Within
George Wither 1588 (Bentworth) – 1667
Can I think the Guide of Heaven
Hath so beautifully given
Outward features, 'cause He meant
To have made less excellent
Your divine part? Or suppose
Beauty, goodness doth oppose;
Like those fools, who do despair
To find any, good and fair?
Rather there I seek a mind
Most excelling, where I find
God hath to the body lent
Most-beseeming ornament,
And I do believe it true,
That, as we the body view
Nearer to perfection grow;
So, the soul herself doth show:
Other more and more excelling
In her powers; as in her dwelling.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 1110010 1010111 1111100 1011101 1010101 1111101 1110101 1011101 1010111 1110101 11100 0110111 1110101 1010101 1010111 10101010 001010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 513 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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