Analysis of A Divine Mistress

Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640



In Nature's pieces still I see
Some error that might mended be;
Something my wish could still remove,
Alter or add; but my fair love
Was fram'd by hands far more divine,
For she hath every beauteous line:
Yet I had been far happier,
Had Nature, that made me, made her.
Then likeness might (that love creates)
Have made her love what now she hates;
Yet I confess I cannot spare
From her just shape the smallest hair;
Nor need I beg from all the store
Of heaven for her one beauty more.
She hath too much divinity for me:
You gods, teach her some more humanity.


Scheme AABCDDEEFFGGHHAA
Poetic Form
Metre 01010111 11011101 10111101 10111111 11111101 11110011 11111100 11011110 11011101 11011111 11011101 10110101 11111101 110101101 1111010011 1110110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 552
Words 109
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 434
Words per stanza (avg) 107
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Carew

Thomas Carew pronounced Carey was an English poet Carews poems are sensuous lyrics more…

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