Analysis of Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits
Martin Peerson 1571 (Cambridgeshire) – 1651 (London)
Upon my lap my sovereign sits
And sucks upon my breast;
Meantime his love maintains my life
And gives my sense her rest.
Sing lullaby, my little boy,
Sing lullaby, mine only joy!
When thou hast taken thy repast,
Repose, my babe, on me;
So may thy mother and thy nurse
Thy cradle also be.
Sing lullaby, my little boy,
Sing lullaby, mine only joy!
I grieve that duty doth not work
All that my wishing would,
Because I would not be to thee
But in the best I should.
Sing lullaby, my little boy,
Sing lullaby, mine only joy!
Yet as I am, and as I may,
I must and will be thine,
Though all too little for thyself
Vouchsafing to be mine.
Sing lullaby, my little boy,
Sing lullaby, mine only joy!
Scheme | xabaCC adxdCC xedeCC xfbfCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 010111 1110111 011101 1101101 1101101 1111011 011111 11110011 110101 1101101 1101101 11110111 111101 01111111 100111 1101101 1101101 11110111 110111 1111011 1111 1101101 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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