Analysis of When Thou must Home to Shades of Underground
Thomas Campion 1567 – 1620
When thou must home to shades of underground,
And there arriv'd, a new admired guest,
The beauteous spirits do engirt thee round,
White Iope, blithe Helen, and the rest,
To hear the stories of thy finish'd love
From that smooth tongue whose music hell can move;
Then wilt thou speak of banqueting delights,
Of masques and revels which sweet youth did make,
Of tourneys and great challenges of knights,
And all these triumphs for thy beauty's sake:
When thou hast told these honours done to thee,
Then tell, O tell, how thou didst murder me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111110 0101010101 01101111 11110001 1101011101 1111110111 11111101 1101011111 1100110011 011101111 111111111 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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