Analysis of Qualis vita, finis ita

John Webster 1580 (London) – 1632 (London)



Here-vnder lyes the wonder of her kinde,
 The Quintessence of Nature and of Grace,
Wit, Beauty, Bounty, and (in Nobles race
 The rarest Iewell) a right humble minde;
 Here lyes her body, but her soule refin'd
Aboue th'impyreall, hath imperial place,
 In blisse so boundlesse, as no words embrace,
  Nor Art can feigne, nor mortall heart can find.
 Her fame remaines a Monument of honor,
 Built by her vertue gilt with purest gold,
With Lilly-flowres and Roses strewed vpon her,
  Her Epitaph Urania thus enrol'd:
 Mild child, chaste mayden, and religious wife:
 The Euen crownes the day, Ioane Essex death her life.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111010101 0010110011 1101000101 010101101 1101010101 11101001 011111101 111111111 0110100110 110111101 1101010110 010111 1111000101 01101110101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 610
Words 104
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 473
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 16, 2023

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John Webster

John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and career overlapped William Shakespeare's. more…

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