Analysis of Prais'd be Diana's Fair and Harmless Light
Sir Walter Raleigh 1552 (Hayes Barton, East Budleigh, Devon) – 1618 (London)
Prais'd be Diana's fair and harmless light;
Prais'd be the dews wherewith she moists the ground;
Prais'd be her beams, the glory of the night;
Prais'd be her power by which all powers abound.
Prais'd be her nymphs with whom she decks the woods,
Prais'd be her knights in whom true honour lives;
Prais'd be that force by which she moves the floods;
Let that Diana shine which all these gives.
In heaven queen she is among the spheres;
In aye she mistress-like makes all things pure;
Eternity in her oft change she bears;
She beauty is; by her the fair endure.
Time wears her not: she doth his chariot guide;
Mortality below her orb is plac'd;
By her the virtue of the stars down slide;
In her is virtue's perfect image cast.
A knowledge pure it is her worth to know:
With Circes let them dwell that think not so.
Scheme | ABABCDEDFGHGIJIKLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 110111101 1101010101 110101111001 1101111101 110101111 1111111101 1101011111 0101110101 0111011111 0100001111 1101100101 11011111001 0100010111 1001010111 001101101 0101110111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 802 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 629 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 151 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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