Analysis of Witchcraft By A Picture
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
I fix mine eye on thine, and there
Pity my picture burning in thine eye;
My picture drowned in a transparent tear,
When I look lower I espy.
Hadst thou the wicked skill
By pictures made and mard, to kill,
How many ways mightst thou perform thy will?
But now I have drunk thy sweet salt tears,
And though thou pour more I'll depart;
My picture vanished, vanish fears
That I can be endamaged by that art;
Though thou retain of me
One picture more, yet that will be,
Being in thine own heart, from all malice free.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 1011010011 1101000101 11110110 110101 11010111 1101110111 111111111 01111101 11010101 11111111 110111 11011111 10011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 506 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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