Analysis of Song: Eternity of Love Protested
Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640
How ill doth he deserve a lover's name,
Whose pale weak flame
Cannot retain
His heat, in spite of absence or disdain;
But doth at once, like paper set on fire,
Burn and expire;
True love can never change his seat,
Nor did her ever love, that could retreat.
That noble flame which my breast keeps alive
Shall still survive
When my soul's fled;
Nor shall my love die when my body's dead,
That shall wait on me to the lower shade,
And never fade;
My very ashes in their urn
Shall, like a hallow'd lamp, forever burn.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 1111 1001 1101110101 11111101110 1001 11110111 1101011101 1101111101 1101 1111 1111111101 1111110101 0101 11010011 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 521 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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