Analysis of Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers
Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640
THE Lady Mary Villiers lies
Under this stone; with weeping eyes
The parents that first gave her birth,
And their sad friends, laid her in earth.
If any of them, Reader, were
Known unto thee, shed a tear;
Or if thyself possess a gem
As dear to thee, as this to them,
Though a stranger to this place,
Bewail in theirs thine own hard case:
For thou perhaps at thy return
May'st find thy Darling in an urn.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 10111101 01011101 01111001 11011100 1101101 1110101 11111111 1010111 1011111 11011101 111110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 416 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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