Analysis of Rose

Thomas Dekker 1572 – 1632



Here sit thou down upon this flow’ry bank,
And make a garland for thy Lacy’s head.
These pinks, these roses, and these violets,
These blushing gilliflowers, these marigolds,
The fair embroidery of his coronet,
Carry not half such beauty in their cheeks,
As the sweet countenance of my Lacy doth.
O my most unkind father! O my stars,
Why lower’d you so at my nativity,
To make me love, yet live robb’d of my love?
Here as a thief am I imprisoned
For my dear Lacy’s sake within those walls,
Which by my father’s cost were builded up
For better purposes. Here must I languish
For him that doth as much lament, I know,
Mine absence, as for him I pine in woe.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOO
Poetic Form
Metre 111101111 010101111 1111001100 1101110 01010011101 1011110011 10110011101 1110110111 1111110100 1111111111 110111010 111110111 111101011 11010011110 1111110111 1101111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 662
Words 125
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 505
Words per stanza (avg) 123
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists. more…

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