Analysis of Weep No More For What Is Past
Sir William Davenant 1606 (Oxford) – 1668 (London)
WEEP no more for what is past,
For time in motion makes such haste
He hath no leisure to descry
Those errors which he passeth by.
If we consider accident,
And how repugnant unto sense
It pays desert with bad event,
We shall disparage Providence.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 11010111 1111011 1101111 11010100 01010101 11101101 11010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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