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.
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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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