Analysis of Ask Me No More

Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640



Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty's orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.

Ask me no more whither doth haste
The nightingale when May is past;
For in your sweet dividing throat
She winters and keeps warm her note.

Ask me no more where those stars 'light
That downwards fall in dead of night;
For in your eyes they sit, and there
Fixed become as in their sphere.

Ask me no more if east or west
The Phoenix builds her spicy nest;
For unto you at last she flies,
And in your fragrant bosom dies.


Scheme AABB CCDD XXEE FFDX GGHH
Poetic Form Quatrain  (60%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 11111101 11110101 1011101 110101101 11111011 01010101 101110101 11010111 11111011 01001111 10110101 11001101 11111111 11010111 10111101 1011011 11111111 01010101 11011111 00110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 684
Words 137
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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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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