Analysis of To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine
Richard Crashaw 1612 (London) – 1649 (Loreto, Marche)
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life,
Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of thy reign,
Distills from thence the tears of wrath and strife,
And so turns wine to water back again.
Scheme | ABAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111111 1111011111 0111011101 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 191 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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