Analysis of Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green
Henry Howard 1517 – 1547
Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green
Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice,
In temperate heat where he is felt and seen;
In presence prest of people, mad or wise;
Set me in high or yet in low degree,
In longest night or in the shortest day,
In clearest sky or where clouds thickest be,
In lusty youth or when my hairs are gray.
Set me in heaven, in earth, or else in hell;
In hill, or dale, or in the foaming flood;
Thrall or at large, alive whereso I dwell,
Sick or in health, in evil fame or good:
Hers will I be, and only with this thought
Content myself although my chance be nought.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 1111110101 0101111101 0101110111 1101110101 0101100101 0101111101 0101111111 11010011101 0111100101 111101111 1101010111 0111010111 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 459 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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