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 |
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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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