Analysis of Pretty Twinkling Starry Eyes

Nicholas Breton 1558 (England) – 1626



Pretty twinkling starry eyes!
How did Nature first devise
Such a sparkling in your sight
As to give Love such delight
As to make him, like a fly,
Play with looks until he die?

Sure you were not made at first
For such mischief to be cursed,
As to kill affection's care
That doth only truth declare.
Where worth's wonders never wither
Love and Beauty live together.

Blessed eyes! then give your blessing
That, in passion's best expressing,
Love, that only lives to grace ye,
May not suffer to deface ye;
But in gentle thoughts directions,
Show the praise of your perfections.


Scheme AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHXA
Poetic Form
Metre 10100101 1110101 1010011 1111101 1111101 1110111 1101111 1110111 11111 1110101 11101010 10101010 1111110 1011010 11101111 11101011 10101010 101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 564
Words 104
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 151
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 2023

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Nicholas Breton

Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist, belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex. more…

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