Analysis of Poem 1 From Pierce Penilesse



Why ist damnation to dispaire and die,
When life is my true happinesse disease?
My soule, my soule, thy safetye makes me flie
The faultie meanes, that might my paine appease.
Diuines and dying men may talke of hell,
But in my heart, her seueral tormentes dwell.
Ah worthlesse Wit, to traine me to this woe,
Deceitfull Artes that nourish Discontent:
Ill thriue the Follie that bewicht me so,
Vaine thoughts adieu, for now I will repent.
And yet my wants perswade me to proceede,
Since none takes pitie of a Scollars neede.
Forgiue me God, although I curse my birth,
And ban the aire, wherein I breath a Wretch:
Since Miserie hath daunted all my mirth,
And I am quite vndone through promise-breach.
Oh friends, no friends, that then vngently frowne,
When changing Fortune casts us headlong downe.
Without redresse complaines my carelesse verse,
And Mydas-eares relent not at my moane:
In some far Land will I my griefes reherse,
Mongst them that will be mou'd when I shall groane.
England (adieu) the Soyle that brought me foorth,
Adieu vnkinde, where skill is nothing woorth.


Scheme ABCBCCDEDEAAFGFGHHIHBHFF
Poetic Form
Metre 110101101 11111101 111111111 011111101 101011111 10110111 111111111 110110001 11011111 1101111101 01111111 11111011 11111111 0101011101 11110111 011111101 11111111 110101111 0111111 011011111 011111111 1111111111 1001011111 011111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,081
Words 188
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 850
Words per stanza (avg) 186
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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