Analysis of Integer Vitae
Thomas Campion 1567 – 1620
THE man of life upright,
Whose guiltless heart is free
From all dishonest deeds,
Or thought of vanity;
The man whose silent days
In harmless joys are spent,
Whom hopes cannot delude,
Nor sorrow discontent;
That man needs neither towers
Nor armour for defence,
Nor secret vaults to fly
From thunder's violence:
He only can behold
With unaffrighted eyes
The horrors of the deep
And terrors of the skies.
Thus, scorning all the cares
That fate or fortune brings,
He makes the heaven his book,
His wisdom heavenly things;
Good thoughts his only friends,
His wealth a well-spent age,
The earth his sober inn
And quiet pilgrimage.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX XCXC XDXD XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 011101 110111 110101 111100 011101 010111 111001 110001 1111010 110101 110111 11100 110101 111 010101 010101 11101 111101 1101011 1101001 111101 110111 011101 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 668 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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