Analysis of Love in Thy Youth, Fair Maid



Love in thy youth, fair maid; be wise,
Old Time will make thee colder,
And though each morning new arise
Yet we each day grow older.
Thou as heaven art fair and young,
Thine eyes like twin stars shining:
But ere another day be sprung,
All these will be declining.
Then winter comes with all his fears
And all thy sweets shall borrow;
Too late then wilt thou shower thy tears,
And I too late shall sorrow.


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Poetic Form
Metre 10111111 1111110 01110101 1111110 11101101 1111110 11010111 1111010 11011111 011111 111111011 0111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 401
Words 79
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 316
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Walter Porter

Walter Porter (c.1587–1659) was an English composer and church musician. He travelled to Italy to study under Monteverdi, and shows Italian influence in madrigals and his one surviving anthem.  more…

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