Analysis of Cherry-Ripe

Thomas Campion 1567 – 1620



THERE is a garden in her face
   Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
   Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:
   There cherries grow which none may buy
   Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.

Those cherries fairly do enclose
   Of orient pearl a double row,
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
   They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
   Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy
   Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.

Her eyes like angels watch them still;
   Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
   All that attempt with eye or hand
   Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
   Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.


Scheme ababcC dbdbcC efefcC
Poetic Form
Metre 11010001 11001101 010010111 01110111 11011111 11010111 11010101 11010101 11010101 11111111 11111111 11010111 01110111 01110111 11110111 11011111 11010111 11010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 701
Words 114
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 174
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion sometimes Campian was an English composer poet and physician Campion was first published as a poet in 1591 with five of his works appearing in an edition of Sir Philip Sidneys Astrophel and Stella more…

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