Analysis of Kind are her answers,
Thomas Campion 1567 – 1620
Kind are her answers,
But her performance keeps no day;
Breaks time, as dancers
From their own music when they stray.
All her free favours and smooth words,
Wing my hopes in vain.
O did ever voice so sweet but only feign?
Can true love yield such delay,
Converting joy to pain?
Lost is our freedom,
When we submit to women so:
Why do we need them
When, in their best they work our woe?
Can alter ends, by Fate prefixed.
O why is the good of man with evil mixed?
Never were days yet called two,
But one night went betwixt.
| Scheme | ABABCDDBDEFGFBHIH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 10010111 11110 11110111 1011011 11101 11101111101 1111101 010111 111010 11011101 11111 101111101 1101111 11101111101 1001111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 513 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 402 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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