Analysis of The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor

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



Black Maid, complain not that I fly,
When Fate commands Antipathy:
Prodigious might that union prove,
Where Night and Day together move,
And the conjunction of our lips
Not kisses make, but an Eclipse;
In which the mixed black and white
Portends more terrour than delight.
Yet if my shadow thou wilt be,
Enjoy thy dearest wish: But see
Thou take my shadowes property,
That hastes away when I come nigh:
Else stay till death hath blinded mee,
And then I will bequeath my self to thee.


Scheme ABCCDDEEBBBABB
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 11010100 01011101 11010101 000101101 11011101 0101101 0111101 1111111 01110111 1111100 11011111 11111101 0111011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 491
Words 89
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 383
Words per stanza (avg) 87
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry King

Henry King was an English poet who served as Bishop of Chichester. more…

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