Analysis of St. Valentines day

Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)



Now that each feather'd Chorister doth sing
The glad approches of the welcome Spring:
Now Phœbus darts forth his more early beam,
And dips it later in the curled stream,
I should to custome prove a retrograde
Did I still dote upon my sullen shade.
Oft have the seasons finisht and begun;
Dayes into Months, those into years have run,
Since my cross Starres and inauspicious fate
Doom'd me to linger here without my Mate:
Whose loss ere since befrosting my desire,
Left me an Altar without Gift or Fire.
I therefore could have wisht for your own sake
That Fortune had design'd a nobler stake
For you to draw, then one whose fading day
Like to a dedicated Taper lay
Within a Tomb, and long burnt out in vain,
Since nothing there saw better by the flame.
Yet since you like your Chance, I must not try
To marre it through my incapacity.
I here make title to it, and proclaime
How much you honour me to wear my name;
Who can no form of gratitude devise,
But offer up my self your sacrifice.
Hail then my worthy Lot! and may each Morn
Successive springs of joy to you be born:
May your content ne're wane, untill my heart
Grown Bankrupt, wants good wishes to impart.
Henceforth I need not make the dust my Shrine,
Nor search the Grave for my lost Valentine.


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11110111 01110101 11111111101 011100011 11111010 1111011101 110101001 1011101111 111100101 1111010111 111111010 11110011110 111111111 1101010101 1111111101 1101000101 0101011101 1101110101 1111111111 1111100100 111101101 111111111 111111001 110111110 1111010111 0101111111 1110111111 1101110101 1111110111 110111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,261
Words 236
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 30
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 987
Words per stanza (avg) 234
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Henry King

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