Analysis of A Song To Amoret
If I were dead, and, in my place,
Some fresher youth designed
To warm thee, with new fires; and grace
Those arms I left behind:
Were he as faithful as the Sun,
That's wedded to the Sphere;
His blood as chaste and temperate run,
As April's mildest tear;
Or were he rich; and, with his heap
And spacious share of earth,
Could make divine affection cheap,
And court his golden birth;
For all these arts, I'd not believe
(No! though he should be thine!),
The mighty Amorist could give
So rich a heart as mine!
Fortune and beauty thou might'st find,
And greater men than I;
But my true resolved mind
They never shall come nigh.
For I not for an hour did love,
Or for a day desire,
But with my soul had from above
This endless holy fire.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE XFXF BGBG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11010011 110101 111111001 111101 01110101 110101 11110101 110101 10110111 010111 11010101 011101 11111101 111111 01010011 110111 100101111 010111 111011 110111 111111011 1101010 11111101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 716 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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