Analysis of When Thou must Home to Shades of Underground



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.


Scheme ABABXX CDCDEE
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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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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