Analysis of Sic Vita
Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)
Like to the falling of a star,
Or as the flights of eagles are,
Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue,
Or silver drops of morning dew,
Or like a wind that chafes the flood,
Or bubbles which on water stood:
Even such is man, whose borrowed light
Is straight called in, and paid to night.
The wind blows out, the bubble dies;
The spring entombed in autumn lies;
The dew dries up, the star is shot;
The flight is past, and man forgot.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11011101 11011101 11011101 11011101 11011101 10111111 11100111 01110101 01010101 01110111 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 330 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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