Analysis of Fortune Smiles
Thomas Dekker 1572 – 1632
Fortune smiles, cry holiday,
Dimples on her cheeks do dwell,
Fortune frowns, cry welladay,
Her love is heaven, her hate is hell:
Since heaven and hell obey her power,
Tremble when her eyes do lour,
Since heaven and hell her power obey,
When she smiles, cry holiday.
Holiday with joy we cry
And bend, and bend and merrily,
Sing Hymns to Fortune's deity,
Sing Hymns to Fortune's deity.
Let us sing, merrily, merrily, merrily,
With our song let heaven resound,
Fortune's hands our heads have crown'd,
Let us sing merrily, merrily, merrily.
| Scheme | ababxxaaxcCC CddC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 1010111 10111 011100111 1100101010 1010111 1100101001 111110 101111 01010100 11110100 11110100 111100100100 11011101 10110111 111100100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 529 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 208 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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