Analysis of Upon Some Distemper of Body

Anne Bradstreet 1612 (Northampton) – 1672 (Andover)



In anguish of my heart replete with woes,
And wasting pains, which best my body knows,
In tossing slumbers on my wakeful bed,
Bedrenched with tears that flowed from mournful head,
Till nature had exhausted all her store,
Then eyes lay dry, disabled to weep more;
And looking up unto his throne on high,
Who sendeth help to those in misery;
He chased away those clouds and let me see
My anchor cast i' th' vale with safety.
He eased my soul of woe, my flesh of pain,
and brought me to the shore from troubled main.


Scheme AABBCCDEEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 0101110111 0101111101 01011111 111111101 1101010101 1111010111 0101101111 111110100 1101110111 11011111110 1111111111 0111011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 521
Words 99
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 401
Words per stanza (avg) 97
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. more…

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