Analysis of The Primrose
Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640
Ask me why I send you here
The firstling of the infant year;
Ask me why I send to you
This primrose all bepearled with dew:
I straight will whisper in your ears,
The sweets of love are washed with tears.
Ask me why this flower doth show
So yellow, green, and sickly too;
Ask me why the stalk is weak
And bending, yet it doth not break:
I must tell you, these discover
What doubts and fears are in a lover.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFCGHII |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 0110101 1111111 111111 11110011 01111111 11111011 11010101 1110111 01011111 11111010 110110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 402 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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