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.


Scheme AXABCCC XDXDBBB
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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John Donne

John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. more…

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