Analysis of A Seventeenth-Century Song
Louise Imogen Guiney 1861 (Roxbury) – 1920
She alone of Shepherdesses
With her blue disdayning eyes,
Wo'd not hark a Kyng that dresses
All his lute in sighes:
Yet to winne
Katheryn,
I elect for mine Emprise.
None is like her, none above her,
Who so lifts my youth in me,
That a littel more to love her
Were to leave her free!
But to winne
Katheryn,
Is mine utmost love's degree.
Distaunce, cold, delay, and danger,
Build the four walles of her bower;
She's noe Sweete for any stranger,
She's noe valley flower:
And to winne
Katheryn,
To her height my heart can Tower!
Uppe to Beautie's promontory
I will climb, not loudlie call
Perfect and escaping glory
Folly, if I fall:
Well to winne
Katheryn!
To be worth her is my all.
| Scheme | aaaabBa cdcdbBd ccccbBc cedebBe |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 10111 11101110 11101 111 1 1011101 11101010 1111101 1011110 01101 111 1 111101 1101010 10111010 11111010 111010 011 1 10111110 1111 111111 01001010 10111 111 1 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 687 |
| Words | 129 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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