Analysis of On two Children dying of one Disease, and buried in one Grave
Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)
Brought forth in sorrow, and bred up in care,
Two tender Children here entombed are:
One Place, one Sire, one Womb their being gave,
They had one mortal sickness, and one grave.
And though they cannot number many years
In their Account, yet with their Parents tears
This comfort mingles; Though their dayes were few
They scarcely sinne, but never sorrow knew:
So that they well might boast, they carry'd hence
What riper ages lose, their innocence.
You pretty losses, that revive the fate
Which in your mother death did antedate,
O let my high-swol'n grief distill on you
The saddest drops of a Parentall dew:
You ask no other dower then what my eyes
Lay out on your untimely exequies:
When once I have discharg'd that mournfull skore,
Heav'n hath decreed you ne're shall cost me more,
Since you release and quit my borrow'd trust,
By taking this inheritance of dust.
Scheme | ABCCDEFFGHIIFFJDAKLL |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101001101 110101011 11110111101 1111010011 0111010101 0101111101 1101011101 1101110101 111111111 111011100 1101010101 10110111 1111110111 01011011 1111011111 11110101 111101111 11011111111 110101111 1101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 875 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 686 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 152 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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